Search

Search Results

Found 1,442 results for .

New: latest edition of Nursery Management

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Don't miss Nursery Management, with our exclusive survey on how costs will affect the sector, ratios across the world, keeping staff fit and more.

Nursery Management: Marketing - All part of the plan

Features

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Marketing may not be top of the priorities list, but with more financial pressures on the way in the form of the 30 hours and National Living Wage, it may come into its own, writes Gordon Kay

Funding - Missing pieces in the 30-hour funding review

Opinion

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

The Government’s Review of childcare costs is supposed to set the sector’s mind at rest – but it only muddies the water further, says Neil Leitch, chief executive of the Pre-school Learning Alliance

Nursery Management: Ratios - Keeping it in proportion

Features

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Childcare ratios have been a hot topic since former minister Liz Truss opened this particular Pandora’s Box in 2013. Jo Parkes looks at what we can learn from comparable systems abroad

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

DfE does not possess the data used in childcare costs report

News

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Research commissioned by the Department for Education as part of its review into the cost of expanding free childcare to 30 hours is not held by the DfE, Nursery World can reveal, despite being quoted 50 times in a key report.

Budget: Small nurseries taken out of business rates

News

Thursday, March 17, 2016

| Nursery World

Measure in yesterday's Budget set to affect the early years sector include a cut to business rates, a sugar levy and an extension to childcare vouchers.

HR Update - The National Living Wage

Features

Sunday, March 6, 2016

| Nursery World

The confusingly titled National Living Wage comes in this April. Jacqui Mann of HR4Nurseries explains

The childcare market isn't working

Opinion

Friday, March 4, 2016

| Nursery World

Stephen Burke says that there is a looming crisis for the childcare market as new initiatives roll out

Asquith buys Montessori group

News

Friday, March 4, 2016

| Nursery World

The UK's third largest nursery chain Asquith Nurseries has expanded further with the acquisition of a North London Montessori group.

Poorer children could miss out on free childcare places, NAO warns

News

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

| Nursery World

Failure to get the funding right for the 30-hour childcare policy could lead to cuts to places for disadvantaged two-year-olds, the Government’s independent spending watchdog claims today.

Tell us your thoughts!

News

Friday, February 26, 2016

| Nursery World

Our Business Costs survey seeking to find out how settings are coping with cost challenges: from the National Living Wage this April through to the funded entitlement for 3/4 year olds (and the planned increase from 15 to 30 hours next year).

Asquith buys south-east based group

News

Monday, February 22, 2016

| Nursery World

Asquith Nurseries has acquired Barley Barn Childcare, the first deal in an expansion plan for 2016.

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

Sustainability: Part 2 - Taking the lead

Features

Monday, February 22, 2016

| Nursery World

In the second part of our sustainability series, Diane Boyd and Nicky Hirst of Liverpool John Moores University, and Sarah Emerson of Kids Love Nature, describe how leaders can start the process off