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£70m NHS childcare strategy is on track

20 February 2003, Nursery World

The National Health Service is on track to meet its target of creating 150 new on-site nurseries in England by 2004, with 120 already open or in the pipeline, delegates...

Society 'fails to value childhood'

20 February 2003, Nursery World

British society's ambivalent attitude towards children is responsible for many of the problems it faces today, according to Professor Al Aynsley-Green, the Department of Health's national clinical director for children....

Introduction to Child Development and Parenting Positively

20 February 2003, Nursery World

Parents, childcare workers and health visitors are being targeted by three new distance learning courses being set up in Leicester at De Montfort University's Unit for Parenting Studies. The three-month...

Seventh national conference of I CAN

20 February 2003, Nursery World

Collaborative working is the theme of the seventh national conference of I CAN, the national educational charity for children who have speech and language difficulties. The conference, Collaboration Counts, at...

Quote of the week

20 February 2003, Nursery World

'Sometimes the only way you can tell who's who in a class is that the teacher is standing, and the teaching assistant is sitting down. And children don't know, either'...

Yoga

20 February 2003, Nursery World

(Photograph) - Nursery teacher Fiona Thomson decided that the children in Hilton Nursery in Aberdeen needed to calm down before story time, so she teaches them yoga. 'It has worked,'...

Child tax credit loophole closed

20 February 2003, Nursery World

The Government has closed a loophole in its forthcoming child tax credit that would have left some parents on low incomes hundreds of pounds worse off when they claimed towards...

Scotland's plan for out-of-school care

20 February 2003, Nursery World

Out-of-school care has been signalled as a priority in the future development of children's services with the Scottish Executive's publication of a major framework document on the sector. School's Out...

Friockheim Nursery

20 February 2003, Nursery World

(Photograph) - Children at Friockheim Nursery near Arbroath in Scotland flew the flag last week as part of a special performance on a Chinese theme, to which parents were invited....

Bill creates list of unsuitable carers

20 February 2003, Nursery World

A Bill to create a list of adults who are regarded as 'unsuitable' to work with children was passed by the Scottish Parliament last week. The Protection of Children Bill...