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27 June 2002, Nursery World

As the end of the academic year approaches, many of the children in your care will be facing transitions of one kind or another. Perhaps they will be going to...

Backlog delays police checks

27 June 2002, Nursery World

The Criminal Records Bureau has built up such a backlog of Disclosure applications for staff checks from nurseries and other employers that they are to be sent to India to...

Children from the Harrow China School

27 June 2002, Nursery World

(Photograph) - Children from the Harrow China School in Middlesex took part in the Coin Street Festival celebrations at the start of Refugee Week (17 to 23 June). The event...

Quote of the week

27 June 2002, Nursery World

'I heard it said recently that partnership is the mutual suppression of mutual loathing in pursuit of Government funding' Ivan Lewis, minister for young people and learning, speaking at the...

Family centre is told to end early excellence childminding scheme

27 June 2002, Nursery World

A family centre in central London whose unique daycare scheme using childminders has earned it early excellence centre status has been instructed by Ofsted to end the practice. The Soho...

A childcare jobs and training fair in the London borough

27 June 2002, Nursery World

(Photograph) - A childcare jobs and training fair in the London borough of Lewisham last November led 23-year-old Laura Brown (above, with one of her charges) to a job working...

Ministerial responsibilities

27 June 2002, Nursery World

Ministerial responsibilities for Catherine Ashton, the early years and school standards minister for England, have been outlined by the Department for Education and Skills. She is responsible for the early...

Education and skills

27 June 2002, Nursery World

Education and skills secretary Estelle Morris has told the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority to sharpen up its act and monitor the performance of examination boards more effectively. Ms Morris said...

Childminders face standards change

27 June 2002, Nursery World

The Government looks set to change its national standards for under-eights daycare which allows childminders in England to smack children in their care and to smoke in their presence with...

Assistants 'failing to improve attainment'

27 June 2002, Nursery World

Doubts have been cast on the impact that classroom assistants make on pupils' attainment by a new report published in the midst of a campaign to recruit an additional 5,000...