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Plans for a national pay structure for teaching assistants and other support staff

30 November 2006, Nursery World

Plans for a national pay structure for teaching assistants and other support staff will be presented to education secretary Alan Johnson in the next few weeks by a working group...

A new sustainability support programme by 4Children

30 November 2006, Nursery World

A new sustainability support programme by 4Children (see page 4) includes weekly telephone surgery sessions with experts on Wednesdays from 1pm-3 pm. The helpline number is 020 7512 2100. Online...

Dame Gillian Pugh

30 November 2006, Nursery World

Dame Gillian Pugh, former chief executive of Coram Family, is the new chair of the National Children's Bureau. She set up the NCB's Early Childhood Unit.

First candidates assessed for EYP

30 November 2006, Nursery World

The first milestone in the development of Early Years Professional status was reached last week as the initial cohort of candidates finished their assessments. A spokesperson for the Children's Workforce...

Gardener at nursery is hailed a hero

30 November 2006, Nursery World

A council gardener who revolutionised school mealtimes through an after-school club has been named the Organix School Food Hero by the Soil Association. Steve Thorpe has been running a gardening...

Practitioners want more time to talk

30 November 2006, Nursery World

More than half of all early years professionals working with disabled children wish they had more time and resources to communicate with them about their disability, according to a report...

Little Learners nursery in Catford, London, beat 15 other exhibitors

30 November 2006, Nursery World

(Photograph) - Little Learners nursery in Catford, London, beat 15 other exhibitors to win 'best dressed stand' at the Childcare Fair in Lewisham. Co-managers and sisters Miranda and Marsha Charles...

Food vouchers for low income families

30 November 2006, Nursery World

A Government scheme to encourage pregnant women and families in low-income groups to eat a more nutritious diet has gone live across Great Britain and Northern Ireland this week. Healthy...

Day nurseries fear death by bureaucracy

30 November 2006, Nursery World

Spiralling staff costs and business rates threaten to 'swallow up' private nurseries in Scotland unless more funding is made available. The Association of Quality Nurseries (AQNS) is urging Scotland's new...

How the carers measure up

30 November 2006, Nursery World

The main findings in Ofsted's latest annual report are summed up by Catherine Gaunt Ofsted's annual report published last week revealed that more than half of childcare and nursery education...