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LONG READ: What funding and regulatory changes mean for the sector

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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

| Nursery World

Katy Morton analyses changes coming down the track and garners opinion on the wider implications.

Assessment: Reducing children to numbers

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Monday, November 13, 2017

| Nursery World

Measures of children’s progress – especially one-off assessments such as the baseline in Reception – are flawed, meaning neither policy-makers nor children benefit, say Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts-Holmes

Nurseries say interim Ofsted visits during Covid are unfair

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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

| Nursery World

Nursery owners have raised concerns about the way Ofsted reports the findings of interim visits on its website while inspections have been suspended during the pandemic.

Nursery school heads seek 'levelling-up' role as funding crisis worsens

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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

| Nursery World

With the pandemic having a disastrous impact on the funding of nursery schools, head teachers speak out about the urgent need for Government to find a solution. Disadvantaged families and children with SEND stand to lose most. By Catherine Gaunt

Guided play as effective as adult-led instruction for children's learning and development

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Wednesday, January 12, 2022

| Nursery World

A new study finds that learning through guided play can be as effective as adult-led instruction and, in some cases, it can have a greater impact on children’s numeracy.

New Year: The sector reveals its hopes and ambitions for 2024

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Monday, January 8, 2024

| Nursery World

Early years professionals explain what they want the sector, and their own operations, to achieve in the year ahead, against the backdrop of ongoing challenges

DfE publishes childminder agency plans

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

| Nursery World

The Government has been accused of ‘watering down childminder agencies’ with proposals to reduce the number of quality assurance visits and make practice support optional.

LONG READ: Nurseries say some inspectors have a ‘conflict of interest’

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Wednesday, May 29, 2024

| Nursery World

Settings are flagging up cases where they claim to have been inspected by someone who runs a nearby nursery or has a history of managing ‘inadequate’ provision. By Katy Morton

Rethinking early childhood services - Change from within

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

| Nursery World

The pandemic has highlighted further the challenges faced by the early years sector around diversity and equal opportunity for all – and the answer lies in anti-oppressive practice. By Dr Eunice Lumsden

Will the Chancellor's childcare reforms work in practice?

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

| Nursery World

The increase to ‘free’ entitlements is likely to be welcomed by parents, but the early years sector and Institute for Fiscal Studies question the practicalities and purpose. By Catherine Gaunt

Exclusive – Nursery World Ofsted survey: Hundreds of nurseries and childminders report stress and sleepless nights before inspections

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

| Nursery World

Many early years respondents to Nursery World's survey highlight negative experiences of inspections and say they feel anxious about future ones. By Catherine Gaunt and Katy Morton

Long Read: Trying to hang on to nursery schools

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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

| Nursery World

The uncertain fate of five of Croydon's settings highlights a national trend that is casting doubt on the future of nursery schools and the provision they offer. By Catherine Gaunt

Coronavirus: How to talk to children about the second wave

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Thursday, January 21, 2021

| Nursery World

The atmosphere in the country has changed with the second wave of COVID, but how has that affected the way practitioners are talking to children about the virus? And what approaches should they be taking? Gabriella Jozwiak finds out

Education policies: Current certainties to new visions

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Monday, May 4, 2015

| Nursery World

A new book looks at the ways we teach children and how we assess their progress - and sets out a vision for improving our methods. One of the book's editors, Dominic Wyse, explains.

ICT - for & against: Toddlers, TV and touchscreens

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Monday, September 21, 2015

| Nursery World

Do ICT and multimedia in the early years have positive potential, or are they a danger to development? Here, two experts make their case.

EXCLUSIVE: Working Poverty, Childcare Practitioners - Childcare’s dirty secret

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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

| Nursery World

We know early years education suffers from a pay problem, but just how does this affect practitioners’ ability to afford to lead ‘normal’ lives? Hannah Crown has these shocking findings from our exclusive survey

LONG READ: Nursery staff lose out as they face paying more tax from April

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

| Nursery World

Lower earners, such as most early years staff, are about to lose more of their pay to income tax. By Katy Morton

LONG READ How do the parties’ election manifestos stack up?

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

| Nursery World

Ahead of the General Election, we look at what the main parties’ policies might mean for the early years sector, with comment from key people. By Katy Morton and Catherine Gaunt

Childminders - Opposition to agencies persists

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Monday, June 16, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government's approach is only fuelling concerns in the sector, says Pat Gordon-Smith.

Exclusive - Analysis uncovers true cost of party childcare pledges

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

| Nursery World

Data experts have costed the three main parties' pledges on extended free childcare.

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LONG READ: What funding and regulatory changes mean for the sector

Assessment: Reducing children to numbers

Nurseries say interim Ofsted visits during Covid are unfair

Nursery school heads seek 'levelling-up' role as funding crisis worsens

Guided play as effective as adult-led instruction for children's learning and development

New Year: The sector reveals its hopes and ambitions for 2024

DfE publishes childminder agency plans

LONG READ: Nurseries say some inspectors have a ‘conflict of interest’

Rethinking early childhood services - Change from within

Will the Chancellor's childcare reforms work in practice?

Exclusive – Nursery World Ofsted survey: Hundreds of nurseries and childminders report stress and sleepless nights before inspections

Long Read: Trying to hang on to nursery schools

Coronavirus: How to talk to children about the second wave

Education policies: Current certainties to new visions

ICT - for & against: Toddlers, TV and touchscreens

EXCLUSIVE: Working Poverty, Childcare Practitioners - Childcare’s dirty secret

LONG READ: Nursery staff lose out as they face paying more tax from April

LONG READ How do the parties’ election manifestos stack up?

Childminders - Opposition to agencies persists

Exclusive - Analysis uncovers true cost of party childcare pledges

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