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125m fund to boost under-performing schools

    News
  • Tuesday, April 5, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Plans for a 125m, ten-year fund to help boost the attainment of disadvantaged children in the poorest performing schools were outlined by the Government last week.

Early years research programme to plug 'analysis gap'

    News
  • Monday, March 6, 2017
  • | Nursery World
Thousands of nurseries, pre-schools and childminders are being invited to take part in a new independent research programme, set up to address the perceived gap in robust analysis of the early years sector.

Removal of ring-fence to affect Sure Start and services

    News
  • Tuesday, October 26, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Sure Start and services for children and families are at risk, following the decision in the spending review to remove ring-fencing from local authority budgets, early years and family organisations have warned.

Concern over impact of 30 hours in London

    News
  • Friday, March 4, 2016
  • | Nursery World
Without proper funding, extending free childcare to 30 hours could have a serious impact on the cost and availability of childcare in the capital, the London Assembly has warned.

Arts campaigners condemn school cuts

    News
  • Tuesday, January 11, 2011
  • | Nursery World
The abolition of a flagship programme designed to foster creativity in children has been condemned by teachers and ambassadors of the arts as threatening the education of the most vulnerable children.

Politicians 'misuse science to push own agenda'

    News
  • Monday, September 19, 2011
  • | Nursery World
The extent to which studies of infant brain development have been misinterpreted and exploited by politicians to push a political agenda on to parenting were debated at a conference at Kent University.

DfE flags up changes to the code of practice

    News
  • Monday, October 31, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Ministers will consult in the next few weeks on the criteria that early years settings will need to meet in order to qualify for nursery education funding, as part of the consultation on the regulation of early education.

A critical year lies ahead

    News
  • Monday, January 11, 2016
  • | Nursery World
Nursery practitioners and early years experts discuss the sector’s opportunities and challenges for the next 12 months. By Charlotte Goddard

Rates for 30-hour childcare revealed

    News
  • Wednesday, November 25, 2015
  • | Nursery World
Early years settings will receive an average of £4.88 to deliver the Government’s pledge of 30-hours of free childcare for three-and four-year-olds.

Lower staff:child ratios to bring down costs, says DfE

    News
  • Monday, November 30, 2015
  • | Nursery World
As Nursery World went to press, the early years sector was still digesting confirmation of the funding rates for the 30-hour childcare entitlement for working parents, released just 24 hours before, and poring over two hefty reports.

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