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Testing times

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  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
How are the new LSCs shaping up? Childcare training providers tell Mary Evans how they see their position Early years training providers are preparing for the toughest test yet of the new Learning and Skills Council (LSC), which took over responsibility in April for all post-16 education in England outside the university sector.

A sick approach to other people's health

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  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
How do other Nursery World readers deal with parents who insist on bringing their obviously ill child into nursery? I cannot understand how they can stand at the nursery door and say that their child 'really wanted to come', when the poor child is very pale, has bright red eyes and is crying. I do understand that working parents rely on childcare and may not have access to other people to help look after a sick child, but what do they plan on doing once the child starts school and is automatically sent home when ill?

Nursery world e-mail bulletin

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  • Tuesday, June 23, 2009
    • | Nursery World
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Hardworking practitioners enjoy a Slumber Stories workshop

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  • Wednesday, December 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Hardworking practitioners enjoy a Slumber Stories workshop run by Moyra Boland at the Glasgow Early Years and Primary Teaching Exhibition on 19-20 November, sponsored by Nursery World Scotland. The workshop was part of the new Enlighten Zone, offering inspiration for early years staff to invest a little time and energy in themselves with salsa dancing, vocal stress release and massage. Photo Tom Finnie/ATOM

13 sets of twins at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Cathedral School in Swansea

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  • Wednesday, February 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Staff are seeing double at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Cathedral School in Swansea, where there are 13 pairs of twins. The twins, aged from two to 11, try not to cause double trouble in every class. Six of the sets of twins are identical and their parents help puzzled teachers and classmates by dressing them in different coloured shoes and accessories. Photo: David Marsden/SWNS

All fired up

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  • Wednesday, December 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The Forest School ethos focuses on individual effort and achievement but its practice applies across the Foundation Stage and the curriculum Forest Schools are springing up across the UK. In Scotland, 20 early years practitioners have just finished their training to become the first 'leaders' of Scotland's Forest School Network, while Wales has just launched its 300,000 North East Wales Forest School (NEWFS). In England, areas now with Forest Schools include Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Devon, Durham, Yorkshire and Shropshire.

Scheme woos Scottish men

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  • Wednesday, February 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
An Edinburgh scheme to encourage more men into childcare through free training has proved a success and is set to expand across Scotland. The Men in Childcare scheme was launched at three Edinburgh colleges, Telford, Stevenson and Jewel and Esk, last year and has increased the number of male childcare students from one or two a year to 85. The initiative was launched after childcare practitioners and Edinburgh City Council became concerned at the lack of male childcarers.

Beginners please

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  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Novelty and board books to share with the youngest children offer plenty to talk about and lots of visual details to examine, as reviewer Alison Boyle discovers BABY'S FIRST WORDS. Written by Debbie McKinnon with photographs by Geoff Dann. (Frances Lincoln, 9.99).

Children's charities slam child poverty strategy

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  • Thursday, February 27, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Charities have criticised the Government’s new child poverty strategy for lacking ambition, containing no new ideas, and being weak on areas such as affordable housing and the living wage.

Training programme

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  • Wednesday, December 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The Bridgwater College Forest School's training programme aims to train those wishing to set up and run Forest Schools anywhere in the country. We offer: Forest school visits - held monthly, involve a brief presentation and visit to the woodland. Adult taster days - an opportunity to spend a day in the woodland finding out what Forest School is really like and experiencing the same kind of personal development that the children experience.

Demands but no recognition

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  • Wednesday, December 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
By Gill Scrivenor, a nursery manager in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Historically childcare has been the responsibility of women and seen as an extension of motherhood. It is regarded as an 'easy' job. The common perception is that anyone working with children is probably sitting chatting while the children play. However, the demand for women in the workforce over recent years has made childcare essential. The Government has sunk a lot of money into this sector, but it has never addressed the pay or career structure of the carers. It does not see childcare as a profession, no matter how much it stresses its importance.

Make the grant work

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  • Wednesday, November 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I have been following readers' letters concerning the nursery education grant and top-up fees with interest. Surely Ross Midgley's suggestions (Special Report, 12 October) for nurseries providing childcare for the full ten hours per day aren't that difficult to understand and implement? We have operated the system he suggests since we opened seven years ago. It is simple to administer and everyone understands it.

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