Search

Speech and language therapy for children rationed due to budget cuts, finds survey

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

| Nursery World

Children are missing out on vital speech and language therapy and starting school without the language skills they need, according to new research by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.

Adopted children will be entitled to a free nursery place at two

News

Thursday, January 3, 2013

| Nursery World

The free early education entitlement for two-year-olds will be extended to all adopted children from 2014.

Falling occupancy levels and chronic underfunding threatens high-quality nursery provision

News

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

| Nursery World

Under-funding of free early education places and the tough economic climate are threatening sustainability of the nursery sector and the viability of the two-year-olds programme, the National Day Nurseries Association has warned.

Think tank calls for fresh impetus in improving the quality of early years teaching

News

Monday, January 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Policy Exchange is recommending that the Teach First scheme be extended to the early years to attract high-calibre graduates to settings that serve disadvantaged areas, as figures show children in these parts of the country receive poorer quality care.

Nursery campaigners to meet children's minister

News

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

| Nursery World

Representatives of the campaign to save Salford’s five local authority nurseries have been invited to meet children and families minister Nadhim Zahawi today (Wednesday 16 May).?

'More Great Childcare': Expansion for Ofsted as councils lose early years quality work

News

Monday, January 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Local authorities are set to lose their early years quality improvement role, as Ofsted becomes 'the sole arbiter of quality in the early years', in the Government's 'More Great Childcare' shake-up.

Boris Johnson and Peter Andre launch under-fives reading scheme

News

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

| Nursery World

The London Mayor and singer Peter Andre have launched a new literacy project to support three-to-five-year-olds in the capital.

Rise in the number of children cared for by relatives

News

Thursday, June 16, 2011

| Nursery World

A major study has revealed for the first time the number of children being brought up by family members other than their parents.

New teaching standards set out

News

Friday, July 15, 2011

| Nursery World

All teachers in England will need to meet new standards of teaching practice and conduct from September 2012.

Rise in female unemployment fuelled by cuts to childcare tax credits

News

Monday, August 8, 2011

| Nursery World

More than one-in-four women have been out of work for more than a year, according to research, which says that cuts to childcare tax credits are partly to blame for female joblessness.

Changes to early years goals and Profile planned

News

Friday, September 15, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government is proposing to revise the Early Learning Goals, and to cut the number that are assessed in the EYFS Profile.

Exclusive: 30 hours saves poorest parents least

News

Monday, September 18, 2017

| Nursery World

The 30 hours policy will save some of the poorest households £5 per week, while the richest will gain ten times that, analysis finds.

College nursery rescued from closure

News

Friday, August 26, 2011

| Nursery World

A students' union is to take over the running of a campus nursery after leading a year-long campaign to save it.

Families trapped by 'compulsive consumerism'

News

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

| Nursery World

Parents in the UK feel under pressure to buy their children the latest consumer goods, often to compensate for long working hours, according to research by Unicef.

Government considers parenting classes for all

News

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

| Nursery World

The Government has announced plans to trial the use of vouchers for parenting classes to mothers and fathers with children under the age of five.

Stress and mental health problems taking their toll on early years staff

News

Friday, June 1, 2018

| Nursery World

One in four early years workers are considering leaving the sector due to stress and mental health problems, a major survey has revealed.

DfE scraps School Direct route to EYTS

News

Friday, June 8, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government has scrapped the School Direct route to Early Years Teacher Status because it isn’t popular enough, Nursery World has learned.

Two-year-old pilot study finds high-quality settings make a difference

News

Thursday, March 7, 2013

| Nursery World

Five-year-olds who took part in the initial two-year-old pilot of free early education places did no better at school at the end of the Reception year than other children, a Government study has found.

Labour pledges to scrap Tax-Free Childcare

News

Friday, June 22, 2018

| Nursery World

Labour would abolish tax-free childcare if it come to power, the shadow childcare minister said today.

Government's childcare reforms 'put children at risk'

News

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

| Nursery World

Reforms to increase ratios to allow nursery staff and childminder to look after more children are at odds with Government policy to foster close one-to-one bonds with children, an early years expert will say today.

Revised safeguarding guidelines focus on the child

News

Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

More focus needs to be placed on the needs of children revised Government guidelines on safeguarding state.

Netherlands childcare sector runs into trouble

News

Thursday, March 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Demand for childcare in the Netherlands has fallen sharply amid the economic crisis and cuts in childcare tax credits, leading to a huge rise in the number of centres going bankrupt.

Boris Johnson lends support to parenting course in primary schools

News

Friday, September 23, 2011

| Nursery World

London mayor Boris Johnson has given his backing to the expansion of a scheme which offers free parenting classes to the parents of primary school children.

Four in ten disabled children live in poverty

News

Friday, October 7, 2011

| Nursery World

Four in ten disabled children in the UK live in poverty, 'a staggering 320,000' children, according to a report by the Children's Society.

Row over call to lower childcare qualfication rules in Ireland

News

Monday, October 30, 2017

| Nursery World

A campaign to relax the requirement for all childcare staff in Ireland to be qualified has been met with criticism from the sector.

Search Results

Speech and language therapy for children rationed due to budget cuts, finds survey

Adopted children will be entitled to a free nursery place at two

Falling occupancy levels and chronic underfunding threatens high-quality nursery provision

Think tank calls for fresh impetus in improving the quality of early years teaching

Nursery campaigners to meet children's minister

'More Great Childcare': Expansion for Ofsted as councils lose early years quality work

Boris Johnson and Peter Andre launch under-fives reading scheme

Rise in the number of children cared for by relatives

New teaching standards set out

Rise in female unemployment fuelled by cuts to childcare tax credits

Changes to early years goals and Profile planned

Exclusive: 30 hours saves poorest parents least

College nursery rescued from closure

Families trapped by 'compulsive consumerism'

Government considers parenting classes for all

Stress and mental health problems taking their toll on early years staff

DfE scraps School Direct route to EYTS

Two-year-old pilot study finds high-quality settings make a difference

Labour pledges to scrap Tax-Free Childcare

Government's childcare reforms 'put children at risk'

Revised safeguarding guidelines focus on the child

Netherlands childcare sector runs into trouble

Boris Johnson lends support to parenting course in primary schools

Four in ten disabled children live in poverty

Row over call to lower childcare qualfication rules in Ireland

Current filters

Filter by

Journals

Tags

Article Types