Bringing up Baby

New site & parents blog

Bringing up Baby — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:23:52 +0000

As you may have noticed, we have just launched our new website. The site has had a refresh in terms of design and brings us more up to date.

A major development to the site built by rad apple is the private area for parents and nursery staff. Each nursery has its own area where nursery staff can post news stories (or blogs) for parents to read. This allows us to upload pictures of parents’ children safely and securely, whilst keeping parents as up to date as possible with the development of their child. It will also save us on paper as we can deliver our news online!

Feel free to let us know what you think of the new site!

Easter closing times

Bringing up Baby — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:42:02 +0000

All Bringing up Baby day nurseries, with the exception of Vale, will be closed for Easter from Monday 14th April to Friday 18th April 2008. Please contact your nursery if you have any questions.

Early Years Advisors

Bringing up Baby — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:12:58 +0000

All of our nurseries are members of their local Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership. This enables us to access external training courses as well as to link up with an Early Years Advisor.

These advisors regularly visit the nurseries and provide advice, support and guidance in areas such as curriculum planning, observation and assessment and Special Educational Needs.

Some of our advisors have also provided us with some excellent in house training for our staff as well as speaking at Parents Evenings.
Good practice is shared amongst the Company and new ideas and procedures are put into place as and when necessary.

Ofsted

Bringing up Baby — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:09:42 +0000

Each of the nurseries has a regular Ofsted inspection. This is an inspection combining OFSTED’s 14 Care Standards with the Educational Inspection, which looks at the 6 Early Learning Goals.

Reports are available from the nurseries and from the OFSTED website.

Childcare Vouchers

Bringing up Baby — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:07:44 +0000

Since 6th April 2006 Childcare Vouchers (to a limit of £55 per week or £243 per month) have been exempt from Tax and National Insurance Contributions (NIC) for employees.

Childcare Vouchers can be offered to you by your employer in addition to your salary but are more commonly offered as a “salary sacrifice”. This means that you sacrifice a specific amount of your salary and receive that equivalent amount in childcare vouchers. This means you will only pay Tax and NIC on the reduced level of your salary. For more information on Childcare Vouchers visit www.daycaretrust.org.uk or contact us.
At Bringing up Baby we currently accept the following vouchers: Accor, Busy Bees, Care-4, Leapfrog, Kids Unlimited, Sodexho and individual company schemes.

Childcare Affordability Programme

Bringing up Baby — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:06:40 +0000

As part of Bringing up Baby’s ongoing commitment to working in partnership with parents, we are proud to announce that we have been successful in our bid to join the Childcare Affordability Programme (CAP).

CAP is an initiative of the London Development Agency and is currently only available at our Richford Street & Vale Day Nurseries.

The purpose of this scheme is to offer flexible childcare at affordable rates to parents who need support in order to continue with their employment or wish to return to the workforce.

All this is made possible through the Boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham and Brent who will subsidise part of the cost of the nursery places. As a result parents can make savings on their nursery fees. Please contact us for more information.

Training

Bringing up Baby — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:13:45 +0000

New training and development programmes are being continually drawn up for all staff members. Topics covered can be seen in our careers section.

New developments

Bringing up Baby — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:14:39 +0000

Bringing up Baby now offers a 50% Holding Fee if you take a minimum of 4 weeks continuous holiday (at the Manager’s discretion).

Corporate

Bringing up Baby — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:15:23 +0000

We also offer a 10% discount to NHS Trust and Metropolitan Police employees. Please contact your Childcare Co-ordinator to provide further information.

We now offer a 12% discount to BBC employees. Please contact us for further information.

Children’s Allergies

Bringing up Baby — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:16:23 +0000

At Bringing up Baby, Health and Safety within our nurseries is always of utmost importance and as part of this we continually review our policies and procedures and share and implement good practice. Some of our staff have undertaken a one day Children’s Allergies course. All our nursery cooks and some of our staff also undertake a Basic Food Hygiene course. (more…)