Management

Flexible working requests and how to handle them

Management | Leadership | Business
Features

Gillian McAteer, director of employment law at Citation, considers the impact of changes to the right to request flexible working on nurseries.

EYE SUPPLEMENT Student Spotlight – chasing dreams

Features

We caught up with Jade Stevens, who is completing her Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification with Parenta Training while working at Kids Capers Nursery. She discusses the importance of never giving up and staying committed to achieve...

Why employee-owned businesses are becoming a growing trend

Features

Richard Cowley at advisor RM2 Employee Ownership outlines the process of transitioning a business to employee-ownership, highlighting the benefits for both staff and the business in the longer term.

EYE SUPPLEMENT Research – Talking Together

Features

Sean Delaney and Kirsty MacDonald discuss research evaluating the First Words Together programme, which aims to address the language gap in areas of high deprivation

Childminding - Business models for childminders

Features

In the last part of our two part series on childminders, Catherine Wakerley, operations manager at Childminding UK, sets out what needs to change in order to ensure the sustainability of the childminding sector.

Nursery World webinar in partnership with Funding Loop: Weighing the impact of the expanded offer on nursery businesses

Features

We convened an expert panel to discuss capacity expansion, meeting demand, making a profit and managing administration in light of the expanded offer. By Catherine Gaunt

Making Ends Meet Part 2: Delivering the funded offer in Scotland while remaining sustainable

Features

In part 2 of our series, we look at how settings in Scotland are coping with the country’s funded offer. By Leah Jones

Employer Zone

Can we double the number of men in childcare?

Work for an expanding award-winning nursery group

How Fennies supported their staff wellbeing throughout a pandemic

Market View: Making your software work for you

Management | Market View
Features

Leah Turner, co-founder of Owen Froebel, which offers day nursery brokerage, valuations and sales, on how to get the most out of your accounting and management software.

HR Guru: The importance of a disciplinary procedure

Management | HR Guru
Features

Imogen Edmunds, managing director of Redwing Solutions, which specialises in HR for early years settings, on disciplinary procedure.

Why social enterprises in the early years sector are a force for good

Practice | Management | Business | Provision | Policy & Politics
Features

London Early Years Foundation chief executive June O’Sullivan explains why the nursery group is setting up an Early Years Social Enterprises Collective

Special Focus: Latest trends in the world of mergers and acquisitions

Management | Business
Features

With nursery purchases continuing at a steady rate, Leah Jones finds out from experts what is driving the market and speaks to two people who recently bought and sold up