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Edible designs

    Other
  • Monday, March 10, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Children at Bright Horizons Day Nursery at Elvetham Heath enjoyed designing and cooking their own 'dinoburgers' with the nursery chef.

NDNA predicts impact of funding shake-up

    News
  • Monday, August 22, 2016
    • | Nursery World
The potential winners and losers in the Government's national funding formula shake-up are detailed in new data analysis by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA), provided exclusively to Nursery World.

Call for action on falling occupancy

    News
  • Wednesday, October 26, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Falling occupancy levels are threatening some private providers with extinction, prompting calls from the heads of two major nursery chains for the Government to ensure that spare capacity is used before new childcare places are created. Nord Anglia chief executive Andrew Fitzmaurice said it cost 15,000 to create a nursery place and added, 'If there is all this spare capacity why doesn't the Government just save that money and get local authorities to procure existing private and voluntary sector nursery places.'

Wales gives children UN rights

    News
  • Tuesday, March 22, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Wales has become the first country in the UK to make the United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) part of its domestic law.

Persil Stars

    News
  • Wednesday, August 28, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Pre-schools and nurseries could become better equipped for art as Persil becomes the latest big company to sponsor educational resources. From October 'Persil Stars' on most of its packs of washing powder can be exchanged for free art and craft kits. Contents range from paints and brushes to packs of glitter and easels, depending on the number of stars collected. Persil consulted the Pre-School Learning Alliance in developing the venture, which is also supported by the Prince of Wales' Arts and Kids Foundation. Nurseries can register for the scheme on freephone 0800 437 0574.

Consultancy role for chain founder

    News
  • Wednesday, August 28, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Tom Shea, the founder of Jigsaw nursery group who stepped down as chief executive last year, has launched a new venture - a childcare consultancy. Childcare Innovations Partnership (CIP), based in Northampton, will provide guidance and expertise on all childcare issues. It has already been commissioned to develop support for a group of 'not for profit' nurseries, looking at how childcarers can concentrate on children rather than routines and administration.

Criminal records Bureau checks in England and Wales

    News
  • Wednesday, August 28, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Criminal Records Bureau checks in England and Wales are only part of the picture in assessing staff and managing child protection effectively, National Day Nurseries Association chief executive Rosemary Murphy warned last week. She said, 'Alongside CRB checks, nurseries must thoroughly check references from past employers and have stringent management of staffing issues, well thought-out nursery policies and up-to-date child protection training in place. CRB checks are essential and turnaround times must improve, but nurseries must remember that no system is infallible.'

PVI settings counting where grants go

    News
  • Tuesday, December 18, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Local authorities are deciding how to spend the capital grant allocations they have received to help private and voluntary sector nurseries adapt their buildings and outside space to extend the free early education offer and deliver flexible provision.

Noticeboard: Toddle waddle

    Other
  • Monday, December 2, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Pre-school and toddler children at Leeward Child Care in Jersey took part in a sponsored toddle waddle.

Council wins award for service

    News
  • Tuesday, March 29, 2011
    • | Nursery World
The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham has won an award from Local Government Chronicle magazine for the success of the council's initiatives targeted at children and young people.

VAT not overlooked

    News
  • Wednesday, October 26, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Lynne Tasker (letters, 13 October) is right to say that VAT and business rates are crucial issues for the private sector, but it is incorrect to say these issues have been overlooked by the NDNA. NDNA has been campaigning continuously for the Government to offer relief on business rates for day nurseries for more than six years. Our member nurseries have seen their business rates increase by an average of 67 per cent.

Noticeboard: Star photo

    Other
  • Monday, December 2, 2013
    • | Nursery World
The newest addition to Magical Tree Nursery in Burnley is Zippy the alien, who children designed and created as part of their outer space week.

Questions of trust

    News
  • Wednesday, October 26, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Nannies and childminders have been rated above nurseries as the highest-quality form of care for babies and toddlers, apart from their own mothers. Introducing the Families, Children and Childcare study to this month's National Childminding Conference, researcher and childcare expert Penelope Leach said, 'I believe nannies have a unique part to play in childcare for babies and toddlers.' She found that for working mothers choosing who to leave their baby with, the most important considerations were trust and 'good adult-to-adult communication'. After talking to mothers about their satisfaction with the childcare they were using, she said, 'The better the communication between a mother and childcarer, the more satisfied she was with her childcare. This finding probably goes some way to explaining why more of the mothers in the study were more satisfied with childminders or nannies than with nurseries.' See our feature about research on page 6.

'Passports' for childcare staff

    News
  • Wednesday, August 28, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The UK's largest teacher recruitment agency has called for the Government to introduce a central register of all childcare workers, where every individual who has been cleared to work with children would hold a 'passport', renewable on an annual basis. The up-to-date register would be on the internet. Ian Penman, chairman of TimePlan, wrote to home secretary David Blunkett last week to urge the introduction of a new registration system similar to that used in the US. TimePlan is the agency that allowed Canadian teacher Amy Gehring to continue working in schools after police warnings that she posed a risk to children.

'Disabled face poverty'

    News
  • Tuesday, April 5, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Government proposals to reduce the amount of disability premiums by more than 1,000 per year could push thousands of families into poverty, the Every Disabled Child Matters Campaign has warned.

New system to help social services

    News
  • Wednesday, August 28, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A system to help social services managers and practitioners improve the outcomes of their work with children and families has been developed by the Department of Health and the Welsh Assembly. The Integrated Children's System comprises a framework for assessment, planning, intervention and review. Information essential for multi-agency practice will be set out in core data requirements and the system will provide common terms for understanding and describing the developmental needs of children.

Without prejudice?

    News
  • Wednesday, October 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Educators are arguing over differing results in assessing black pupils at the Foundation Stage. Simon Vevers reports Details of the performance of minority ethnic pupils in the Foundation Stage Profile assessments were published by the DfES earlier this year without any great publicity. Perhaps there should have been publicity - or rather, an alarm sounded. For they showed that all minority ethnic pupil groups, and black African Caribbean children in particular, performed below average on all 13 scales of the assessments completed at the end of the reception year.

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