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Congratulations to the nursery nurses of Hounslow, London, who have fought off the threat of cuts to their jobs in reception classes proposed by the council (see News, page 9). In the very short time...
One result of our society moving to a more service-based economy is that demand for childcare outside the traditional working day grows. A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that...
Ask any nursery or pre-school manager what they dislike about their job and it's the bureaucracy and paperwork that usually top the list. Everybody accepts that a certain amount is necessary to...
Many nursery businesses, including some of the largest in the UK, have grown out of a parent's reaction to the lack of childcare available for their own family. Some nursery chains that started off...
This week's columnist Helen Penn looks at an oasis of good practice in a land of stark inequality I have been working in South Africa recently. It is a very unequal country, and nearly 10 million...
A glitch in the new Computershare voucher system led to some parents having overpayments taken from their accounts last month, Nursery World has learned.
Laing and Buison has pointed out two statistical errors in its Children's Nurseries 2004 report (News, 4 March). Philip Blackburn, senior economist at Laing and Buisson, said, 'The total capacity in...
I was appalled when I read the news about the Government allowing childminders to smack children and to smoke in front of children. I think that if the parents want their children smacked they should...
Anyone planning to start a nursery can learn a great deal from reading the real life stories of those who have gone before them. This year, Starting A Nursery includes a variety of tales ranging from...
You might not appreciate how much there is to know about nannying until you've seen The Nanny Handbook: The essential guide to being a nanny, by Teena Kamen. It has an accessible textbook style that...