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Educators and parents unite

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  • Wednesday, August 1, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By Geraldine Everett, national chair of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) Thinking skills are needed as much by those in government as by school children. The sooner we can have joined-up thinking that leads to properly resourced joined-up education the better.

It's time to recognise BAs in early childhood

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  • Wednesday, August 1, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I found Jane Akroyd's In my view, 'World-class qualification' (5 June), very interesting. In Australia, she states, the manager of a childcare centre is qualified with a BA in Early Childhood Education. There has been so much emphasis recently on the importance on having highly trained staff, qualified with NNEB, BTec or NVQ 3. But here in our country how often does a nursery nurse position - let alone a manager position - ask for a degree in Early Childhood Education?

Minders say 'fix tax credit'

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  • Wednesday, August 1, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Problems with the childcare tax credit need to be sorted out by the Inland Revenue if the childcare strategy is to succeed, the Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) has warned. The Inland Revenue launched a consultation last month setting out plans to create two new UK-wide tax credits from 2003, an integrated child credit and an employment tax credit. These credits would replace existing schemes (see news, 26 July). The childcare tax credit, which families currently can claim for up to 70 per cent of their eligible childcare costs, would become part of the new employment tax credit.

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