Sheffield Out of School Network Newshttp://www.osn.org.uk/newsWed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00OSN AGM and celebration night will be held in February 2010 fr more details keep checking this spacehttp://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=10http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=10Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00Enticing graduates into a career in playwork is being hindered by poor perceptions of the professi...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=13http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=13Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00George wants four pieces of toast, cut into four please. Bea is having porridge with a gentle snowfa...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=25http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=25Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00The Government has committed 5.5 million to fund 19 pilot projects across England to test creative...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=14http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=14Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00More than 80 per cent of adults want the next Government to have policies that ensure children can...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=15http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=15Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00The out-of-school sector has hit out at children s secretary Ed Balls after he detailed plans to c...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=16http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=16Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00Parents of young children have been warned that they are likely to face a shortage of available ho...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=17http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=17Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00The early years workforce is being urged to submit evidence towards the independent review of the...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=31http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=31Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00Child benefit, the benefit payout received by all families with children, will be frozen for three y...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=26http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=26Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00North Ayrshire Council s scrutiny committee have recommended the closure of the St Mark s and Woodl...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=27http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=27Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00It is an observation that has become commonplace: children are missing out on normal stages of growi...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=28http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=28Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00The review will be carried out by children and families expert Dame Clare Tickell, chief executive o...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=29http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=29Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00A government report into the first year of extended services found that around half of school staff...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=30http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=30Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00Education Secretary Michael Gove has frozen grants to 132 councils for building and running up to 1,...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=32http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=32Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00Thank you very much for voting us the Best NVQ Playwork Assessment Centre...! We received the award...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=33http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=33Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00Shelly Newstead, from the playwork social enterprise Common Threads, has urged their 8,000...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=34http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=34Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00We hope you enjoy our new look website, packed full of features you will find useful. This includes...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=50http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=50Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00A generation of cotton wool children are growing up without being exposed to risky play, experts...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=51http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=51Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00You will probably all know that in August the government launched a consultation on the review of...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=52http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=52Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00Caroline Haworth, chief officer of the Bath Area Play Project, is leading the project at a time when...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=53http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=53Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00A further 94 are still under review, four will be privatised and 129 will be merged, while 350 bodie...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=54http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=54Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00As part of the spending review, the childcare element of the Working Families tax credit will reduce...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=59http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=59Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00The UK Play and Playwork Education and Skills Strategy is founded on the principle of Article 31 of...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=63http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=63Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00You are all invited to attend the next Provider Briefing events. These will be held on the morning...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=57http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=57Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00Sheffield OSN in conjunction with the Bristol Scrapstore PlayPod, have launched the North s first e...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=64http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=64Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00Wednesday 1st December 2010 - Unfortunately due to the adverse weather conditions we have closed the...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=65http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=65Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00Safeguarding children Policy and a number of OSN Toolkit documents on our website have been updated...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=66http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=66Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00OSN are delighted to announce it s 2010 AGM will be held at the Quaker Meeting House on Thursday 10t...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=67http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=67Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00The snapshot survey, which attracted responses from 25 directors of children s services, sets out fo...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=69http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=69Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00Primary schools in Llanafan and Pontrhydfendigaid have won Big Lottery funding which has secured the...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=70http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=70Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00OSN now advertise Playwork Job vacancies on our website, the cost per advert per month is 10, OSN m...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=71http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=71Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00Raising Attainment and Aspiration is a key objective within Sheffield 0-5 Strategy, which recommends...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=73http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=73Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00OSN are training staff at a school in Cleethorpes in preperation for the launch of a Scrapstore Play...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=75http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=75Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00Sheffield s second Annual Food Festival will be taking place between 4-10 July. This year OSN succes...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=76http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=76Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00As a special offer for a limited time only during June, out of school clubs and individuals from out...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=77http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=77Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00Full details on our Job vacancies pagehttp://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=78http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=78Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00Spring/Summer edition of OSN Network News is now available on our website to view or downloadhttp://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=80http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=80Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00Sheffield out of School Network are now on Facebook! Please visit out page to see information about...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=81http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=81Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00National Play Day This year s Play Day event will be held on Wednesday 3 August, 1 4pm at Highfie...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=83http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=83Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00Updates have been made to the following documents: Fact Sheet - Key Legislation for Working with Ch...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=85http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=85Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00As a special offer for a limited time only during August, out of school clubs and individuals from o...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=86http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=86Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00Contact OSN now to book First Aid and Food Hygiene courses for the following dates in 2011-12 First...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=87http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=87Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00There will be an additional 2 day First Aid Course taking place at Sheffield Out of School Network o...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=88http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=88Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00Increase in the National Minimum Wagefrom 1 October 2011 The National Minimum Wage rates are rev...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=89http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=89Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00Sheffield out of School Network is excited to have recently delivered, what we hope to be the first...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=91http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=91Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00*Membership special offer during September * Any students currently undertaking accredited training...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=92http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=92Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00A big congratulations to the following Out of School Clubs from Sheffield who received Charter for Q...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=93http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=93Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00The rates (from 1 October 2011) are: 6.08 - the main rate for workers aged 21 and over 4.98 -...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=94http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=94Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00In July 2001 Ofsted made changes to contact details for parents. Follow this link to download Ofsted...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=95http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=95Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00Following a request from the Manager at a Sheffield Out of School club, OSN have agreed to facilitat...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=96http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=96Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00Visit Job vacancies page for more detailshttp://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=97http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=97Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00Following requests from out of school providers the Early Years Safeguarding Advisory Team and OSN h...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=99http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=99Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00Seasons Greetings from all at OSNhttp://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=100http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=100Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00Do you sometimes feel isolated from what s happening at other out of school clubs or feel it would b...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=102http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=102Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00Sheffield Out of School Network (OSN) annual AGM and Celebration of Achievement Evening will be held...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=103http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=103Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00You are invited to make a nomination for our new Sheffield Playworker of the Year Award to b...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=104http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=104Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00Sheffield Out of School Network (OSN) annual AGM and Playwork Celebration Evening on Thursday 23rd F...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=106http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=106Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00The Spring 2012 edition of OSN Network News is now available to download from our websitehttp://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=107http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=107Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00Become a member of OSN to receive some FANTASTIC benefits for just 30 per year!! Full OSN Membersh...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=109http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=109Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00Do you sometimes feel isolated as an Out of School club Manager/Co-ordinator? or feel it would be go...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=110http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=110Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00OSN are running an Importance of Play training course on two Saturdays in June 2012 at a cost of...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=112http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=112Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00The following OSN Factsheets, available in the members only section, have recently been updated:...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=116http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=116Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00Well done to our Development Manager Sue Prasad who carried the Olympic torch in Ecclesfield Sheffie...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=118http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=118Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00Playday 2012 Sheffield - Sheffield Out of School Network are hosting a FREE Playday event for childr...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=120http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=120Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00OSN are delivering EYFS update briefings over the summer in time for the implementation of the up...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=121http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=121Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00OSN is currently updating our information, documentation templates and sample policies to enable out...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=124http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=124Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00OSN updated policies to reflect EYFS 2012 now available to download from OSN website Members only ar...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=136http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=136Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00Craft Materials Sale at OSN Scrapstore Earlier this year the Shrodoba children s scrapstore, based...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=138http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=138Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00EYFS 2012 Statutory Framework and other related documents are now available to view and download fro...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=133http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=133Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00Take a look at the Job Vacancies area on our website for latest Playwork vacancieshttp://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=139http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=139Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00OSN are delivering EYFS 2012 update briefings on Friday 31st January and Wednesday 6th March 2013 10...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=140http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=140Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00We are once again holding the AGM alongside our annual celebration of achievement where we present t...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=146http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=146Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00We have a stock of craft materials for sale. Items include beads, pipecleaners, marker pens, pa...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=148http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=148Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00Places available on First Aid course on 16th 23rd March- for details see our training programme in...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=145http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=145Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00Visit our Job vacancies page to view latest Job vacancieshttp://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=149http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=149Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00Sheffield Out of School Network are is expanding the delivery of Scrapstore PlayPods to schools acro...http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=150http://www.osn.org.uk/news?id=150