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Hitler admiring child minder to face court action in Belgium
22 September 2009 - Daily Mail
BRUSSELS (AFP-EJP)---A Belgian child minder who openly admires Adolf Hitler is set to be taken to court and is likely to lose her business permit, Belgian media reported Wednesday. The woman, who claims to be married to a "former Nazi", has a portrait of Hitler, plenty of Nazi literature and a banner of a banned Flemish neo-Nazi group VMO in the reception area of her home in the port city of Antwerp, where she minds local children. Speaking to VRT television, she compared the presence of Turks and Moroccans in Flanders to that of the Jews in Germany during the 1930s and '40s.New nursery operation is all in the family
17 September 2009 - Nursery WorldIt's a family affair at a Leicestershire nursery that is set to open at the end of this month. The Riverbank Day Nursery in Melton Mowbray is to be operated by six relatives who will be using their different areas of expertise to make sure the setting gets off to a flying start. Carol and Neil Cartwright, and their son and daughter-in-law Jeremy and Sylvia, are the joint owners of the new nursery. Accompanying them in running it will be Carol's sister-in-law Barbara, who has taken on the role of manager, and daughter Nicola, who is the nursery's cook. The only member of staff to be reOpportunities for home-based childminders
16 September 2009 - Mirror.co.ukWaterford City Childcare Committee offers support, information and training for new or existing childminders. We encourage them to make contact with Susan Power the Childminding Advisory Officer for advice on how to start a childminding service. Parents can also access a list of Voluntary Notified Childminders by calling 051 860444. Training: First Aid, Child Welfare and Protection, Quality Awareness Programme, Arts & Crafts and Healthy Eating. Networking: Waterford City Childcare Committee provides opportunities for childminders to meet on a regular basis. We meet at organised play moMum?s anger as Brambles Centre bans childminders
15 September 2009 - Wokingham TimesA mother says working women are being discriminated against after childminders and nannies were turned away from a children?s centre. The Brambles Children?s Centre in Budges Gardens holds play sessions for children and, until recently, anyone could take youngsters along. The rules have now changed, meaning only family members can take children to all but one of the sessions, a decision made to keep spaces available for vulnerable children. Frances Childs, whose three-year-old daughter, Nancy, is regularly taken to the centre by her childminder, is angry paid carers are now excluded fMan jailed for abusing six girls
11 September 2009 - BBC NewsA man who sexually abused six girls over a three-year period after winning their parents' trust has been jailed. Stuart Thomson, 36, was found guilty of eight offences at Falkirk Sheriff Court, dating from 2005, when he was acting as an unofficial childminder. The court was told that he preyed on his victims, aged between four and 15, while their parents were at work. Sheriff Peter Hammond jailed him for three years, with a further three to be spent on licence. The parents of the children have condemned the sentence as "too lenient". Thomson, of Mather Terrace in Falkirk, abused theWork Matters: Management Focus - Childminding - Secret of success
10 September 2009 - Nursery WorldOfsted is promoting high-quality practice by childminders in a new initiative based on inspections. Karen Faux reports. A special leaflet produced by Ofsted is throwing the spotlight on outstanding childminding practice. 'Childminding: a passion to be outstanding' is being distributed to all registered childminders with a view to encouraging them to aim for the top. The leaflet outlines the key aspects of best practice that inspectors have seen so far under the EYFS. Inspectors have judged 9 per cent of childminders to offer outstanding provision, while 55 per cent were judged good, 30EYFS may be leading childminders to more training, NCMA finds
9 September 2009 - Nursery WorldMore childminders are undertaking training than ever before, according to research published by the National Childminding Association. The annual survey of more than 1,000 NCMA members found that 86 per cent had undertaken training in the past 12 months, an increase from 73 per cent since 2008, which the report said could be attributed to the introduction of the Early Years Foundation Stage. The number of NCMA members holding a level three qualification has also increased. The study found that nearly half of NCMA members are part of a formal childminding network or quality assurance s
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