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Nurseries' resilience 'wearing increasingly thin' warns Christie & Co in business outlook for 2024

Friday, January 12, 2024

| Nursery World

Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co is predicting more consolidation among nursery operators and a continued loss of capacity as a result of smaller settings closing, in market predictions for the year ahead.

Nursery group launches training academy

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Friday, February 26, 2021

| Nursery World

Nursery group N Family Club has launched an in-house learning hub.

Early Years Alliance launches its #WeAreEducators campaign

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Wednesday, June 22, 2022

| Nursery World

A campaign to recognise those working in the early years as educators has been launched by the Early Years Alliance today (Wednesday).

Early years is ‘an invisible workforce’ - report

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Tuesday, July 5, 2022

| Nursery World

More than nine in ten workers in the early years sector feel they are not respected by Government and policymakers, while seven in ten feel a lack of respect from the public, according to a survey from early childhood platform Famly.

Sector invited to contribute to Level 3 Early Years Educator review

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Tuesday, July 5, 2022

| Nursery World

The review of the Early Years Educator (EYE) qualification has opened for feedback from the sector and parents.

Covid on the rise among schools workforce

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Monday, July 11, 2022

| Nursery World

There has been a rise in the number of school staff catching Covid, with those working in primary schools having most been affected.

Level 5 standard in dispute

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Monday, February 3, 2020

| Nursery World

A tug of war is taking place over whether the Level 5 apprenticeship standard should contain a foundation degree or the standard ‘licence to practice’ at Level 3, Nursery World has learned.

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

Budget 2023: Nurseries warn they 'need to see the sums' as Government plans major expansion in childcare for one- and two-year-olds

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

| Nursery World

Sector organisations have welcomed Treasury plans to increase funding for childcare by £4 billion, but experts have warned ‘the devil is in the detail’, amid nurseries closing due to the ongoing underfunding and recruitment crisis.

Number of early years providers fallen by 10 per cent over four years

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Thursday, December 15, 2022

| Nursery World

New DfE statistics reveal between 2018 and 2022, that the number of early years providers has fallen by 10 per cent.

Prime minister sets out plan to combine A Levels and T Levels

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Thursday, October 5, 2023

| Nursery World

A Levels and T Levels will be combined into British Standard Qualification for 16- to -19-year-olds.

Apprentices the answer to coping with increased demand for 15 and 30 hour-places, says training provider

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

| Nursery World

Early years training provider Realise has committed to training more than 10,000 apprentices over the next five years to help settings address the ‘seismic’ recruitment crisis.

Scotland's first minister commits an extra £16 million to boost the pay of early years staff

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Friday, March 8, 2024

| Nursery World

The First Minister has announced £16 million of additional investment to boost the pay of early years staff in Scotland.

New documentary highlights the early years staffing crisis

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Wednesday, June 26, 2024

| Nursery World

A new documentary highlighting the ongoing recruitment and retention crisis within the sector has been made.

Study reveals trends in global ECEC workforce

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Thursday, September 26, 2019

| Nursery World

Business property adviser Christie & Co has published its first report on global workforce trends in early childhood education and care (ECEC).

Innovative software allows families to book childcare by the hour

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Monday, February 10, 2020

| Nursery World

A new early learning and childcare management system which aims to bring greater flexibility to parents and practitioners has been launched.

New early years guidance for settings planning for wider opening

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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

| Nursery World

Childcare providers have been told by the Government to ‘use their professional judgement’ and ‘follow alternative approaches’ if they choose as they plan to reopen to all children, in new guidance for early years settings.

Nursery nurse staff voice concern about safety of reopening to more children

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Monday, June 1, 2020

| Nursery World

A survey by Unison of more than 2,000 nursery nurses and classroom assistants in nursery classes found that three-quarters did not feel their setting would be able to cope with extra health and safety measures, as a result of coronavirus, in time to reopen today.

Interview - Dr Sara Bonetti, Education Policy Institute

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Tuesday, September 1, 2020

| Nursery World

Research commissioned by the Social Mobility Commission has found one in eight early years workers earns less than £5 an hour. The report highlights low pay and lack of career and training opportunities among the key barriers to a stable workforce. Report author Dr Bonetti discusses the findings

MPs discuss early years workforce challenges

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

| Nursery World

An urgent independent review is needed to ‘alleviate the pressures’ facing the early years workforce, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Childcare and Early Education has heard.

New research reveals the financial impact of Covid on early years settings

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Friday, March 19, 2021

| Nursery World

Nurseries were losing more than a thousand pounds a week in parent fees due to the pandemic last December, according to research commissioned by the DfE.

Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

| Nursery World

While recruiting Level 3-qualified staff has been an issue for several years, settings have told Nursery World that the situation is now so dire they fear they will be forced to turn families away because of staff shortages.

Change to test and trace and self-isolation rules causes 'utter confusion' in nurseries

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

| Nursery World

Early years settings and schools have been thrown into confusion following the Government's change to the rules on tracking coronavirus cases and self-isolation, as the number of Covid-related absences among children and staff continues to rise.

Busy Bees Training launches Level 5 Early Years apprenticeship

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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

| Nursery World

Busy Bees Education and Training, part of the Busy Bees group, is now delivering the Level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner apprenticeship programme.

A mixed picture post-furlough amid worker shortages

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Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| Nursery World

While some settings have seen occupancy levels bounce back, demand for others remains low following the end of the furlough scheme in September. Katy Morton reports

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Nurseries' resilience 'wearing increasingly thin' warns Christie & Co in business outlook for 2024

Nursery group launches training academy

Early Years Alliance launches its #WeAreEducators campaign

Early years is ‘an invisible workforce’ - report

Sector invited to contribute to Level 3 Early Years Educator review

Covid on the rise among schools workforce

Level 5 standard in dispute

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

Budget 2023: Nurseries warn they 'need to see the sums' as Government plans major expansion in childcare for one- and two-year-olds

Number of early years providers fallen by 10 per cent over four years

Prime minister sets out plan to combine A Levels and T Levels

Apprentices the answer to coping with increased demand for 15 and 30 hour-places, says training provider

Scotland's first minister commits an extra £16 million to boost the pay of early years staff

New documentary highlights the early years staffing crisis

Study reveals trends in global ECEC workforce

Innovative software allows families to book childcare by the hour

New early years guidance for settings planning for wider opening

Nursery nurse staff voice concern about safety of reopening to more children

Interview - Dr Sara Bonetti, Education Policy Institute

MPs discuss early years workforce challenges

New research reveals the financial impact of Covid on early years settings

Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis

Change to test and trace and self-isolation rules causes 'utter confusion' in nurseries

Busy Bees Training launches Level 5 Early Years apprenticeship

A mixed picture post-furlough amid worker shortages

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