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Up to 10,000 registered childminders in deprived parts of England are to receive temporary grants of up to 100 a week to help them through periods of financial difficulty. The news last week was...
I was startled by the Government's announcement that childminders would be allowed to smoke while supervising their charges (News, 14 December and 21/28 December). Surely there is a mountain of...
I am in full agreement with the comments by Stephen Burke, director of the Daycare Trust (News, 25 October), about the lack of appropriate childcare for children who have special needs. I run one of...
As a nursery owner, I wholeheartedly agree with the news story 'Nurseries demand fraud money back' (11 December). We too have had parents ask us for our registration number to enable them to claim...
Food companies are increasingly turning to cinema, the internet and magazines to promote junk food to children since the Government imposed restrictions on TV advertising, new research has found.
Filming tips take 2 As part of an introduction to using moving images in the nursery, get children to talk about their favourite films - why they like them, who the main characters are and how the...
I was pleased to read the two news stories, one 'Challenge gender roles in the nursery' and the other about Danny Foster of Hear'Say giving his backing to a recruitment campaign for more male...
The race is on to get Ofsted's Early Years Directorate up and running. But time is short and the issues and problems that need to be sorted out are many, as our coverage this week shows. The national...
The new national occupational standards for classroom assistants (see News, page 4) are welcome for several reasons. The standards, and the forthcoming NVQs/SVQs that will follow, will be a big step...
Teaching assistant, non-teaching assistant, classroom assistant, nursery nurse, early years practitioner... The number of job titles given to support staff in primary schools is only outdone by the...