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Linguatots

19 September 2002, Nursery World

(Photograph) - Four-year-old Charlotte McCrone of Renfrewshire checks out some language resources from Linguatots, a new company set up by her parents Dawn and Jim McCrone when they were having...

Curriculum may start at age three

19 September 2002, Nursery World

Children in England could begin the national curriculum from the age of three, following the start of a Government consultation on extending the national curriculum to include the Foundation Stage....

The importance of making spaces

19 September 2002, Nursery World

The importance of making spaces in which children and their carers can have freedom to think, talk and create was stressed at a major early years conference at Nottingham University...

Grants on offer for voluntary organisations

19 September 2002, Nursery World

Voluntary organisations with projects based in England have been invited to bid for grants of up to £55,000 each to provide support to families. Beverley Hughes, minister for the family,...

The scrapping of Key Stage One tests in Wales

19 September 2002, Nursery World

The scrapping of Key Stage One tests in Wales last year has not affected children's achievement, results published last week suggest. More than 80 per cent of seven-year-olds achieved at...

Nursery owner up for business prize

19 September 2002, Nursery World

A Yorkshire nursery owner and manager is in the running for a £20,000 prize in a competition to honour the UK's best new businesses, organised by the HSBC bank. Sally...

Quote of the week

19 September 2002, Nursery World

'It seems like time for us to understand that children aren't either "little angels or little devils", as ChildLine recently put it, but complicated little packages that can contain elements...

Providers guided on new care standards

19 September 2002, Nursery World

Do you display photographs of adults as well as of children in your setting, to show that both are welcomed and valued? What measures do you have in place to...

Employers must comply with unsuitable person list

19 September 2002, Nursery World

New proposals to stop 'unsuitable' people from working with children have been unveiled by the Scottish Executive. Minister for education and young people Cathy Jamieson gave details of the Protection...

Unison petition signed by 20,000

19 September 2002, Nursery World

A petition signed by 20,000 supporters calling on the Scottish Executive to set up a review into early years education and childcare received its first consideration by the public petitions...