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Responding to grievance: Use the proper procedures
Care providers will be aware that, when dealing with employee grievances, they will have to comply with the statutory procedures set out in the...
NICE guidance aims to halt patient malnutrition
With claims that as many as 40 per cent of all hospital and care home patients are at risk from malnutrition, the National Institute...
Ofsted senior management changes
Ofsted’s director of early years Maurice Smith has been appointed acting HM Chief Inspector of Schools. It is expected that a permanent appointment to...
Child Base chairman
Major nursery provider Child Base has appointed Sir Roger Hurn as chairman following the retirement of the company’s founder Sir Peter Thompson (NCMN December...
PAT appointment
The Professional Association of Teachers, which incorporates the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses, has appointed Philip Parkin as its new general secretary. He will...
OBE for Children in Scotland head
Bronwen Cohen, chief executive of Children in Scotland, has received an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List. She received the award for services...
Fewer providers feel business threatened by government initiatives
More UK childcare providers than last year view government initiatives such as children’s centres and extended schools as having no impact on their businesses,...
DfES says plans are not to ‘bail out’ P&V providers
The government has denied reports in The Times that it is to use public monies to subsidise privately run nurseries in an attempt to...
LGA encouraging councils to work with P&V providers
The Local Government Association (LGA) has said that it is doing all it can to encourage local authorities to work with private and voluntary...
Tax credit take-up rise
The number of families claiming the childcare element of the Working Tax Credit has risen by 7% in the past year. The latest figures...
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