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To the point - Why favour the wealthy?

    Features
  • Friday, February 3, 2012
  • | Nursery World
You can usually tell when a Government is gearing up to announce a new policy by the fact that some smart, loyal and upcoming backbenchers begin making arguments for it.

Take twos.. continuity of care

    Features
  • Friday, February 3, 2012
  • | Nursery World
The expansion of the free entitlement for disadvantaged two year-olds will require new solutions to meet demand for places and new relationships between providers. James Hempsall describes how this has been the case in Stockton-on-Tees, where a holistic family approach has focused on providing continuity between a specially created playgroup and the children's centre.

Nursery Management: Equality - Finding balance

    Features
  • Monday, September 21, 2015
  • | Nursery World
A Christian nursery worker sacked for comments about homosexuality recently won a case against her employer. So are equality and discrimination mutually exclusive? Katy Morton finds out.

To the Point - Cut poverty now

    Features
  • Monday, June 27, 2011
  • | Nursery World
The Government is to be congratulated on its commitment to families with young children. It has commissioned three excellent reports and seems to agree with their findings, says Naomi Eisenstadt.

To the Point - Take the universal view

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 19, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Some time late in the General Election campaign, Labour strategists coined the phrase 'Coalition of Cuts for Children' to describe what a Conservative-Liberal Democrat government might mean for children and families.

Historical View: Is childcare working?

    Features
  • Tuesday, May 7, 2019
  • | Nursery World
How much childcare is available for mothers who work full-time? Pamela Calder, former chair of the Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network and who campaigned in the 70s for better access to childcare, asks whether things have improved

In my view - Don't score an own goal on nursery education

    Features
  • Tuesday, June 29, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Just as Fabio Cappello inherited a longstanding malaise in goalkeeping in the England football team, so education secretary Michael Gove has inherited a longstanding lack of attention to the nursery education sector in this country.

HR Update: How to handle probations

    Features
  • Monday, January 9, 2012
  • | Nursery World
While it's good to include a probationary period clause in your employment contract, you need to carry out performance reviews during that time, advises Jacqui Mann, managing director of HR4Nurseries

To the Point - A credit for everyone

    Features
  • Tuesday, March 15, 2011
  • | Nursery World
The Government has announced that the childcare element of the tax credit system, already due to be reduced this year, will be merged into the new Universal Credit.

Guide to: Upcoming policy changes 2019

    Features
  • Monday, August 19, 2019
  • | Nursery World
A swathe of new big policy documents are hitting the early years sector from September, starting with the new inspection framework. Hannah Crown has a handy summary of what is happening and when

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