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11 July 2002, Nursery World

Hot on the heels of Bright Horizons Family Solutions' acquisition of Kinderquest, Busy Bees has snapped up the Lancashire-based Kindercare Childcare Centres group (see News, page 4), taking it to...

Chain leaps up list in merger

11 July 2002, Nursery World

The Busy Bees childcare group has become the second-largest nursery chain in the UK and Ireland following its purchase of Lancashire-based Kindercare Childcare Centres. Busy Bees, which was the fifth...

Gallery of nursery winners

11 July 2002, Nursery World

(Photograph) - * Nursery staff enjoyed a black-tie occasion when Ravenstone House Pre-Preparatory School and Nursery Group had its first annual awards ceremony. The event was held in the 18th-century...

New drive calls for children's centres

11 July 2002, Nursery World

Childcare charity the Daycare Trust is calling on the Government to set up a nationwide programme of children's centres. The Trust is launching its campaign as an informal cross-departmental review...

Criminal Records Bureau

11 July 2002, Nursery World

The performance of the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) came under scrutiny in the House of Lords last week. Lord Falconer of Thornton, a Home Office minister, told peers it was...

The work of psychoanalyst Anna Freud commemorated

11 July 2002, Nursery World

Anna Freud in helping children with emotional and behavioural difficulties has been commemorated with an English Heritage Blue Plaque at her London house. The plaque marks the 50th year of...

In my view

11 July 2002, Nursery World

Early Education has asked us to point out that contrary to what was stated at the end of 'In my view' (4 July), Margaret Edgington will not be talking about...

Quote of the week

11 July 2002, Nursery World

'We will not apologise for raising standards and we are not about to change a strategy admired around the word. Children cannot learn anything until they get the basics right.'...

£1.2m in grants to develop nurseries

11 July 2002, Nursery World

A factory, a former cinema and derelict farmland are among 14 sites designated for new neighbourhood nurseries with grants worth more than £1.2m from the New Opportunities Fund (NOF). Among...

Gently does it

11 July 2002, Nursery World

(Photograph) - Gently does it as pupils David Gillian and Holly Armstrong try out their massage skills. The children at Cochrane Castle Primary School in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, are being taught...