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Early years is more important than ever

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 1, 2021
  • | Nursery World
The early years sector will play a key role in the post-Covid recovery, says Jennifer Tomlinson, professor of gender and employment relations, University of Leeds

A question of trust

    Opinion
  • Thursday, February 13, 2014
  • | Nursery World
Current early years policies betray a lack of understanding of very young children's needs, argues Pre-School Learning Alliance chief executive Neil Leitch

To the point - Getting mums on side

    Opinion
  • Friday, September 20, 2013
  • | Nursery World
Last week marked the beginning of party conference season. All the parties know that they have to speak to and for women to stand a chance of winning in 2015. This means that childcare will increasingly feature as we head towards the election.

Making a meal of it

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 5, 2015
  • | Nursery World
Should infant free school meals be free for all? In reality they are an 'expensive gimmick' that subsidises middle-class parents, argues Lewis Brown.

To the Point - The dangers of localism for Sure Start

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 2, 2012
  • | Nursery World
The Department for Education has just published a consultation on statutory guidance for Sure Start Children's Centres. I strongly encourage all Nursery World readers to go online and give your own comments on the guidance by 1 June, says Naomi Eisenstadt.

Re-examine the baseline

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 26, 2015
  • | Nursery World
How, why and when we should assess young children's learning is once more a matter for debate in English policy.

Ready to talk about the challenges ahead

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 15, 2015
  • | Nursery World
The Government is taking a number of steps to improve childcare, and will be looking to discuss the future of the sector with practitioners, says childcare and education minister Sam Gyimah.

Editor's view - Rethinking the balance

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 11, 2014
  • | Nursery World
This month's Working Mum column gives a real insight into the continuing problems that parents face in trying to arrange childcare - in this instance, out-of-school provision for her elder daughter who starts reception next term.

Double trouble?

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 20, 2015
  • | Nursery World
Well, the Conservative party pledge to increase funded early education for threeand four-year-olds from 15 to 30 hours a week came out of the blue (Tory blue, of course!) and had many seeing red.

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