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		<title>NZ &#8211; Child support system needs to be fairer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government is seeking to make it easier and fairer for parents to make child support payments &#8211; but also make it harder to avoid stumping up.
Revenue Minister Peter Dunne today released a discussion document, Supporting Children, outlining wide-ranging proposals to change the system.
Parents owe about $2 billion but only about $600,000 of that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK &#8211; Work Matters: Management Focus &#8211; Boost for play</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SkillsActive has come up with a three-tiered, bite-sized approach to playwork qualifications, reports Karen Faux.
Earlier this summer, SkillsActive published a report, Playwork People 4, which found that more than 40 per cent of playworkers do not have a playwork qualification. So employers who are keen to recruit more staff with specific expertise in play will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Positive Relationships: Baby room &#8211; Who cares?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The often disregarded baby room was the focus of a project on how young children are cared for, as Dr Kathy Goouch and Dr Sacha Powell explain.
There seems to be a lack of research information about the processes and practices of early childhood education and care for children from birth to three (David et al, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enabling Environments: Creativity &#8211; The Midas Touch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Midas Touch Project, a Liverpool-based transformative learning programme for very young children and their families and carers, aims to enhance children&#8217;s and adults&#8217; sense of awe and wonder in their everyday lives. Using recycled, &#8216;ordinary&#8217; objects as tools of play, work and learning, the Midas Touch programme uncovers the unusual within the usual, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK &#8211; Government urged to rethink school starting age</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Educational experts are urging the Government to rethink the age at which children start school, to close the gap between summer-born children and older peers.
Tim Oates, of Cambridge Assessment, which published a review of research into birthdate effects last year, believes that the school starting age should be based around the development of &#8216;executive function&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK &#8211; Ofsted to issue accident guidance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a successful appeal by a nursery owner, Ofsted is planning to issue precise guidance on what constitutes a &#8217;serious&#8217; accident requiring notification.
The owner of a Yorkshire setting had been given notice to improve by Ofsted because she did not notify child protection agencies when a child fell and cut her lip.
The dispute between Ofsted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK &#8211; &#8216;Don&#8217;t change the EYFS&#8217;, practitioners say</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is &#8216;overwhelming&#8217; support among most early years practitioners for the EYFS framework, new Government research by the Institute of Education suggests.
The study commissioned by the DCSF and published by the current Government, was carried out to find out the views all those working with the framework throughout the children’s workforce, ahead of a planned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NZ &#8211; Safety a burning issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firefighters, the Rodney District Council and ACC have teamed up to make Rodney safer for children for this week&#8217;s Safety New Zealand Week.
Rodney fire services visited childcare providers around the district to present information packs to children and their parents on home safety.
The pack contains pamphlets on hot water and fire safety, home safety tips, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Childhood obesity is rising rapidly in Mumbai: Dr Sanjay Borude</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Dongri resident Nazir Abdul Ahmad Rehman, 53, left his 100-sq metre tenement for the first time in five years. He underwent a three-hour-long bariatric surgery, which will finally enable him to lead a normal life. Dr Sanjay Borude of Breach Candy hospital, who performed the surgery successfully on Rehman, spoke to DNA on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politics is killing the world&#8217;s children</title>
		<link>http://socato.org/?p=6564</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently met a woman called Opa, in a tiny village a few hours inland from Madang on the east coast of Papua New Guinea. World Vision had trained her as a birth attendant, but her fellow-trainee had died and she said she was now unable to attend to all of the community&#8217;s birthing needs. [...]]]></description>
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