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Nursery Management: Sustainability - Swings and roundabouts?

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

| Nursery World

With the Government making plans to create a more flexible and responsive childcare market, Karen Faux asks professionals for their suggestions for improvement on provision.

Nursery Management: Policy - Q&A: Your guide to the Children and Families Bill

Features

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

| Nursery World

As this highly significant bill enters its final stages in Parliament, we ask Family and Childcare Trust policy and public affairs expert Adam Butler some key questions.

Ofsted Big Conversation weekend - latest meetings

News

Thursday, August 29, 2013

| Nursery World

Two more venues have been added for the early years sector's Ofsted Big Conversation weekend.

Childcare tax relief is change for the good

Opinion

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

| Nursery World

Proposals for childcare vouchers may not offer immediate relief but their benefits will be felt in the long term says Susan McGhee, commercial director of Bertram Nursery Group

Most parents believe ratios in graduate-led settings are too high

News

Friday, July 26, 2013

| Nursery World

More than half of parents believe that nurseries should employ more staff to look after nursery age children, research by the Department for Education suggests.

DfE keen to hear from nurseries on business costs

News

Thursday, June 20, 2013

| Nursery World

Private and voluntary nurseries are being urged to share their running costs with the Department for Education.

Nursery education funding 'must be protected' to curb free places crisis

News

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

| Nursery World

The early years sector faces 'chronic underfunding', which threatens to put at risk the Government's plans to expand free nursery education places for two-year-olds.

Women vital to boosting UK economy

News

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

| Nursery World

Extending childcare tax breaks and a business culture that 'embraces' flexible working for all are key recommendations from a report into maximising women's contribution to the economy.

Nurseries say DfE ratio figures don't add up

News

Friday, May 31, 2013

| Nursery World

The early years sector has slammed the Department for Education's (DfE) financial analysis of the ratio proposals as a 'fantasy'.

'Just relax the ratios, turn on the tap and the children will come'

Opinion

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Perhaps Liz Truss could persuade the Treasury to adopt a novel form of quantitative easing, argues Ross Midgley - just print more children.

DfE claims ratio plans could slash fees by more than a quarter

News

Friday, May 24, 2013

| Nursery World

Proposals to increase staff: child ratios in early years settings could see nurseries increasing their revenue by more than 200,000 a year, according to a DfE analysis.

Pre-School Learning Alliance calls for in-depth Government response to ratios petition

News

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

| Nursery World

The Pre-School Learning Alliance has written to the Department for Education to demand a detailed reply to its e-petition against changes to childcare ratios, now that it has secured the 10,000 signatures needed to prompt a Government response.

2m fund to boost childcare start-ups

News

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

| Nursery World

A 2m scheme to encourage more people to set up as childminders, open nurseries and get more women into work has opened for applications.

Rise in pre-school hours for Scottish children

News

Monday, April 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Three- and four-year-olds in Scotland will be entitled to 600 hours of early education a year in plans set out in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill.