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Apprenticeship levy is a 'blunt instrument', MPs say

    News
  • Friday, March 31, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The Government’s apprenticeships policies lack focus and will not close the skills gap because they fail to concentrate on the sectors and regions where training is most needed, an MPs' report warns.

Nursery Management: Poverty - Destined for failure?

    Features
  • Monday, September 21, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Early years practitioners know that part of their job is reducing the disadvantage gap. But what do they really think of poor children? Dr Donald Simpson, who has led a two-year study into practitioners'perceptions of poverty, reports.

Wales launches 10-year childcare plan

    News
  • Monday, December 18, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The Welsh government has unveiled a 10-year plan to develop the early years, childcare and play workforce to deliver its commitment to offer 30-hour childcare for working parents.

GCSEs U-turn praised, but questions remain

    News
  • Monday, March 20, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The sector has welcomed the early years minister Caroline Dinenage’s decision to reinstate functional skills as alternatives to GCSEs in English and maths for Level 3 qualifications.

Conferences addresses changes to Ofsted inspection framework

    News
  • Monday, November 14, 2011
    • | Nursery World
'Inspection and Regulation in the Early Years: Building the Strongest Foundation' (Neil Stewart Associates, 18 January) is designed to help the sector get up to speed with changes to the inspections framework which will be timed to coincide with the introduction of the revised EYFS next September.

CWDC given go-ahead to re-design EYPS

    News
  • Tuesday, April 5, 2011
    • | Nursery World
The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has been awarded nearly 17m for the next financial year to redesign the Early Years Professional Status qualification and roll out the New Leaders in Early Years scheme.

Exclusive: Ask the Minister

    News
  • Tuesday, September 10, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Put your questions about Government early years policy direct to Education and Childcare Minister Elizabeth Truss

Early years workforce ‘becoming less qualified’

    News
  • Monday, March 19, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Last week, new analysis of the early years workforce revealed a troubling picture of the sector, with a downward trend in the proportion of qualified staff and the prospect that in the future the workforce may be less qualified than it is now.

Workforce Strategy, Part 4: Careers - Getting in early

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 31, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Careers advice has long been a Cinderella service in schools. But with a massive shortage of early years staff, a new careers advice drive and the early years workforce strategy, there is finally a path to change, finds Charlotte Goddard

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