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Outstanding Contribution Award

    News
  • Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Gill Haynes, chief executive of the National Childminding Association (NCMA) The Nursery World Award for Outstanding Contribution to the sector, sponsored by Parenta, goes to Gill Haynes, chief executive of the National Childminding Association.

Team tactics

    News
  • Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Your staff are a reservoir of creativity but they need to know what is expected of them and why. Deborah Sharpe explains that training is the key to empowerment You are running a playscheme with a fantastic team of playworkers who need little supervision or training because they have childcare qualifications, know your policies and procedures, and already work as a supportive team.

Red tape problems hamper nurseries

    News
  • Wednesday, August 21, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A nursery owner in Cumbria has warned that another year of chaos in the criminal records check and childcare inspection systems will put providers under such stress that some will be unable to cope. Fran Scales, who has run the Goschen Road nursery in Carlisle with her husband David since 1983, said, 'The last year has been horrendous. If you expand and take on new members of staff, how are you supposed to manage? The system is unnecessarily unwieldy - there must be an easier way. Ofsted have to sort it out, or people are going to end up having nervous breakdowns. You can't run a business under these conditions.'

Snail Trail

    Other
  • Monday, June 24, 2019
    • | Nursery World
At Roseacre Playgroup in Shepperton, children explored The Snail by Matisse.

Green days

    News
  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Basing a nursery in a 'green' building offers plenty of benefits, as Annette Rawstrone discovered With the former glory of the textile revolution long gone, the industrial area of Manchester had become neglected, leaving disused factories, mills and warehouses. Now the area where the Macintosh raincoat was invented and produced is being reclaimed. It has become an urban renewal site with the aim of creating a residential community complete with a private day nursery, doctor's surgery and shops in the heart of the city.

Obesity before birth

    News
  • Tuesday, May 3, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A mother's diet during pregnancy can strongly influence her child's risk of obesity many years later, according to new research.

Do we care?

    News
  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
If we have children's interests at heart, says Professor Helen Penn, shouldn't we extend our concern to all the children around the world? For the past ten years or so I have been working part of the time in the 'South' - previously known as the developing world or the Third Majority.

Early years favours Foundation training

    News
  • Wednesday, August 21, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The early years sector is in favour of Government proposals for a national programme for Foundation Stage training, according to an analysis of responses to a consultation paper published last week. Just over 80 per cent of respondents to the consultation, including practitioners, LEAs, and representative bodies, supported the proposal to establish nationally directed Foundation Stage support for early years development and childcare partnerships (EYDCPs).

Proposed SEND funds 'not enough', sector says

    News
  • Monday, October 3, 2016
    • | Nursery World
The sector has welcomed the Government’s recognition of the inequality of access to childcare for children with special educational needs and disabilities, but has questioned how far its proposed reforms will go.

No place like home

    News
  • Wednesday, August 21, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Thousands of children struggle with the effects of living in temporary and substandard housing. Catherine Gaunt looks at moves to help them Can you imagine living in a room so small and cramped that your two-year-old child has been unable to learn how to crawl? Or being the mother of a one-year-old living in a flat so damp that not only do you both suffer constant colds, but you cannot leave your child's cuddly toys out because they will be covered in mould within days? These examples may sound extreme, but they are cases that the campaigning charity Shelter has uncovered in the course of its work with the homeless. In fact, according to research Shelter published earlier this year, growing up in cramped conditions with no room to play is a reality for 100,000 homeless children in England alone.

Childminders can train for care of two-year-olds

    News
  • Tuesday, May 10, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A training programme that stresses the importance of listening to two-year-olds has been delivered to registered childminders by the Northern Ireland Childminding Association (NICMA).

More inspections

    News
  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Your Special Report ('Knock knock', 8 September) concluded that the sector has already endorsed snap inspections as this would be the way to stop the appalling behaviour by staff witnessed in 'Nurseries Undercover'. First, I would like to know who Ofsted consulted about no-notice inspections. I own and manage a 24-place day nursery and I was not consulted and neither were any other owners I know.

Win a place to talk

    News
  • Tuesday, May 10, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Early years settings and schools are invited to take part in the Elizabeth Jarman 'A Place to Talk Outside' project.

Close to the Bones

    Other
  • Monday, May 27, 2019
    • | Nursery World
Children attending Montys Nursery and Pre-school in Kew enjoyed an exciting day out visiting the Natural History Museum.

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