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In brief...Education minister Jack McConnell

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  • Wednesday, June 20, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Education minister Jack McConnell has singled out Patna Primary School and Nursery Class in East Ayrshire for praise following a glowing report from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education. HMIE praised the school and nursery class's committed and experienced teachers, nursery nurses, classroom assistant and special educational needs auxiliary, and also commended the school's arrangements for communicating with parents, which included an 'excellent' nursery handbook. Mr McConnell said, 'The ethos of this school is particularly strong, with the stimulating and caring atmosphere being highlighted in particular by HMIE.'

In brief...Young chefs in 42 primary schools in Scotland

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  • Wednesday, June 20, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Young chefs in 42 primary schools in Scotland will be given lessons in healthy cooking and baking through a pilot scheme in Clackmannan and North Lanarkshire, announced during Focus on Food week last week and backed by 197,300 from the Scottish Executive. Deputy health minister Malcolm Chisholm said, 'If Scotland is to truly end its unenviable reputation as one of the unhealthiest nations in the western world, then we must teach children at an early age not just about the benefits of healthy eating but how to cook well-balanced meals.'

Parents entitled to defer start in school

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  • Wednesday, June 20, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Parents whose winter-born four-year-olds are not ready to cope with starting primary school will no longer have to plead special needs in order to secure an extra year of free nursery education, following an announcement from deputy education minister Nicol Stephen last week. From next year, all children who are eligible to start school aged four-and-a-half, but were born in January or February, will be entitled to an extra year of publicly funded pre-school education if the school, parents and local authority decide that it is in their best interests to defer entry to primary school. They will then start school a year later, aged five-and-a-half.

Top of the agenda

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  • Wednesday, November 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
To see the issue of childcare thrust suddenly to attention where it was unconsidered before, look at Ireland. Simon Vevers reports Government childcare initiatives have been rolled out with almost relentless regularity in the UKin recent years. But in Ireland far less attention has been paid to the issue - until now, when it has been thrust to the heart of political debate and is likely to be central to the forthcoming budget on 7 December.

Playing it fair

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  • Wednesday, June 20, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Learning how to tackle discrimination and promote equal opportunities is a key part of a childcarer's role. Simon Vevers lists courses and organisations that can help in this area Children in Scotland is running a one-day workshop on:

Security is key

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  • Wednesday, November 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The key worker system gives babies and toddlers individual attention to their needs at times they can expect, as Lena Engel explains While daily care routines for babies and young children are crucial to maintaining their health and safety, they are also the best way to help children learn life skills by promoting language, social awareness and self-confidence.

'Bizarre' target set for men in childcare

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  • Wednesday, June 20, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Government's target for six per cent of the childcare workforce to be men by 2004 has been described as 'bizarre' by the chief executive of the National Childminding Association. Gill Haynes made her comment during an NCMA conference in London last week called 'Diversity: Making the difference'. She said, 'If we're going to reach the six per cent target of men in childcare by 2004 - how bizarre this is as a concept - we have to go back to the issue of pay and conditions.'

Would you hire this nanny?

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  • Wednesday, October 27, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Not quite the nanny from hell, but the nanny agencies from hell were exposed this month by the consumer protection magazine Which? when it sent one of its researchers to approach 20 agencies, posing as a nanny. Rosie Fletcher (pictured) told the agencies that she had no qualifications and that her only childcare experience had been as an occasional babysitter. She said, 'I was surprised that a quarter of the agencies were prepared to accept me, given that I had no qualifications and so little experience.'

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