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12 February 2004, Nursery World

Childminders should be left in no doubt about their importance to the Government's National Childcare Strategy after this week's announcement of a £20m scheme to support new entrants to the...

Early years provision is praised by Ofsted

12 February 2004, Nursery World

Early years providers in England have been praised for their high standards by Ofsted chief inspector David Bell. Speaking in London last week at the publication of Ofsted's report for...

The Sound Foundation Handbook

12 February 2004, Nursery World

(Photograph) - Children's author Sue Nicholls leads three- to five-year-olds through activities from The Sound Foundation Handbook at the Croydon Clocktower in Surrey. The book for Foundation Stage practitioners features...

Minority parents shun formal care

12 February 2004, Nursery World

Families from ethnic minorities use informal childcare because of a lack of culturally and religiously sensitive provision that meets their needs, a report by the Department for Trade and Industry...

Staff pay in private day nurseries in Scotland

12 February 2004, Nursery World

More than one-third of staff in private day nurseries in Scotland are paid less than £5 an hour - barely above the minimum wage of £4.50 an hour for those...

British Institute for Brain-Injured Children seminar

12 February 2004, Nursery World

A free seminar is being offered to parents and carers of children with special needs by the British Institute for Brain-Injured Children. The seminar at the Diana, Princess of Wales...

Quote of the week

12 February 2004, Nursery World

'They liked things such as baked potatoes, pasta and fruit. That gives the lie to what people often tell us, which is that children will only eat highly processed food....

Dermot Murnaghan

12 February 2004, Nursery World

(Photograph) - BBC Breakfast presenter Dermot Murnaghan got an earful of chatter when he visited the Cyril Henry Nursery School in the London borough of Greenwich last week. The children...

State-of-art unit promotes Welsh

12 February 2004, Nursery World

Work began last week on a state-of-the-art early years centre in mid-Wales that will include two separate day nurseries, training facilities and the new headquarters of the Welsh-medium playgroup association...

Low pay data sparks demand for review

12 February 2004, Nursery World

Childcare industry leaders have called on the Government to review pay and subsidies in Scotland. Figures published last week by the Scottish Executive revealed that more than one-third of childcare...