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ChildCarer - Issue 4 September 2007
Welcome to the September issue of ChildCarer - the monthly e-newsletter compiled by childcare and early years journalist James Tweed exclusively for Morton Michel policyholders.
To access your articles, simply click on the headline of your prefered article and you will be re-directed to the full on-line version of ChildCarer.
Morton Michel Monthly Draw - Scroll down for your chance to win a package of Babies Playing with Treasures and Heuristic Play training courses kindly donated by Training Packages Ltd.
Message from Ofsted - Many thanks to Ofsted for providing a rather interesting article on how to be outstanding.
Happy reading.
Samantha, Jerry and Nick Beere
Partners
NEWS
Outstanding childcare on increase, Ofsted says, but you wouldn't know it.
You couldn't tell from newspaper reports last month that more than half of the registered childcare providers in England inspected in 2006-2007 has been found by Ofsted to offer either good or outstanding provision to the young children in their care.
ABC / Busy Bees' purchase of Leapfrog "the first of more acquisitions"
Busy Bees is set to become the UK's biggest nursery operator following its purchase of all 88 Leapfrog day nurseries from Nord Anglia for £31.2m.
Nursery Owner is first national minimum wage prosecution
A day nursery in north-east London has become the first business in England to be prosecuted for not paying its staff the national minimum wage.
Heidi is UK's top professional nanny
Congratulations to Heidi McFadyen Professional Nanny of the Year 2007 and Morton Michel policyholder.
Message from Ofsted - How to be outstanding
At the end of August, Ofsted launched Getting on well, an online resource to help early years and childcare providers develop and improve their work in relation to two of Every Child Matters outcomes.
Durham study conclusions "premature", says child development expert
A leading child development expert has dismissed as premature claims that the Government's £3bn programme of support for young children and their families is failing to make a difference.
Primary Steps nurseries for sale after parent company goes into administration.
The Primary Steps nursery group has gone into administration following problems with proposed financing of the company.
Two new childcare qualifications unveiled by CACHE
Two new childcare qualifications at Level 2 and 3 have been launched by the Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education.
INSURANCE
General Insurance
As one of our policyholder, you obviously trust us to provide you with great cover at a reasonable premium but did you know we also run a General Insurance Division which operates to the same high standard you would expect from Morton Michel?
Please visit www.mortonmichelinsurance.co.uk for further information on all of our non-childcare related policies.
MORTON MICHEL MONTHLY DRAW
Babies Playing with Treasures and Heuristic Play training courses
To win this superb training package CD, which retails at £35, simply email insurance@mortonmichel.com making sure you also include your Morton Michel policy number.
Winner will be announced in the October issue of
ChildCarer.
Congratulations to Rachel Green, childminder from Rochester for winning the September Monthly Draw which was a set of Chunky Sound Puzzles and Animal Runners, donated by Galt Education.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
And, finally...
Former employees of the troubled pop star Britney Spears have cast asperations about her perceived lack of parenting skills by claiming that she has hired nannies without checking their childcare qualifications first.
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