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Take twos - three sessions a day

Features

Friday, April 19, 2013

| Nursery World

Historically the sector has worked hard to embrace flexibility when it comes to offering early learning.

Welsh providers urged to have their say on 30-hour childcare

News

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

| Nursery World

Nurseries, childminders and pre-schools are being asked for their views on the 30 hours offer in Wales.

Think tank puts forward ideas to fix the UK's 'broken' childcare system

News

Friday, December 2, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report calls for the UK’s ‘broken childcare’ system to be fixed, providing recommendations to tackle its ‘complexity, inflexibility’ and the ‘dysfunctional provider market’.

DfE announces increases to early years funding that are branded 'tokenistic' by sector

News

Friday, December 16, 2022

| Nursery World

The DfE has announced that childcare funding is to rise by 3.4 per cent for three and four-year-olds and by 4 per cent for two-year-olds in 2023-24, while an extra £20m is being provided to help cover minimum wage increases

‘Complete chaos’ for parents trying to access the extended funding for two-year-olds

News

Monday, January 15, 2024

| Nursery World

Thousands of parents are struggling to get their code to take up the extended hours and to find a setting that is offering funded places.

Book your spot at our free business webinar on expanded childcare

News

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

| Nursery World

The expansion of funded childcare brings with it both opportunities and challenges for early years settings of all sizes to manage, with an increase to administration and paperwork.

Government to launch consultation on childcare ratio changes before summer

News

Friday, May 13, 2022

| Nursery World

The children and families minister Will Quince has confirmed today that the Department for Education will consult 'before the summer' on plans to raise the number of two-year-olds that one member of staff can care for in early years settings in England from four to five.

Nursery Management: Business - Costs cocktail

Features

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

How is the impact of the 30 hours, National Living Wage and other increased business costs going to be felt across the sector? Hannah Crown reports

Opening time signalled for nursery group's £2m pub expansion

News

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

| Nursery World

A £2m expansion scheme is underway after a husband and wife-run nursery group purchased two former pubs.

Time for action on men in childcare

Opinion

Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

With the proportion of men working in early years stuck at just two per cent, it's time for the Government to set recruitment targets to address the gender imbalance once and for all, says David Wright.

Nursery Management: 30 Hours: Funding Rates - Number crunch

Features

Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

The way that councils are setting rates for 30 hours funding varies widely across the country. Jo Parkes assesses some big differences in approach

House of Commons nursery 'viable' despite £1m bill

News

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

| Nursery World

The House of Commons has declared its nursery ‘viable’ following a number of years spent loss-making.

NDNA survey: most settings wary of 30 hours

News

Monday, February 22, 2016

| Nursery World

The latest NDNA survey finds funding and the 30 hours policy causing nurseries concern

Tax-Free Childcare costs top £35m

News

Monday, June 12, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government has spent more than £35m on implementing Tax-Free Childcare, which since its launch seven weeks ago has been plagued with problems.

Close to six million people earning less than a living wage

News

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

| Nursery World

New research suggests that 5.84 million people are paid less than the Living Wage and of these 280,000 work in the childcare and related personal services sector.