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Exclusive: Ask the Minister

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

| Nursery World

Education and Childcare Minister Elizabeth Truss answers Nursery World readers' questions about More Great Childcare and More Affordable Childcare

Training Today: Apprenticeships - A new model

Features

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

Apprenticeships are getting an update, with plans for employer-led standards coinciding with the introduction of the Level 3 EYE qualification and new GCSE rules. Ross Midgley explains.

Clash over GCSE equivalents

News

Monday, November 16, 2015

| Nursery World

A leading group of employers are at loggerheads with the Government over equivalents to GCSEs for early years qualifications.

Budget plan to scrap NI payments given lukewarm welcome

News

Thursday, December 4, 2014

| Nursery World

The abolition of national insurance payments for employers of apprentices will not save much money, say nursery chains.

Nutbrown slams 'More Great Childcare' plans

News

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

| Nursery World

Professor Cathy Nutbrown has launched a highly critical response to the government's proposals in 'More Great Childcare', saying that they 'will shake the foundations of quality provision for young children'.

Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis

News

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

| Nursery World

While recruiting Level 3-qualified staff has been an issue for several years, settings have told Nursery World that the situation is now so dire they fear they will be forced to turn families away because of staff shortages.

New early years leadership qualification available from Autumn 2022

News

Friday, October 15, 2021

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has launched a new early years leadership qualification for Level 3 qualified and above practitioners working in private, voluntary and independent settings.

EYPS and the Nutbrown Review: Threat or opportunity?

News

Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Cathy Nutbrown's recommendations for EYPS in her recent review of qualifications have fuelled heated debate. Karen Faux finds out why opinion is so divided and what it could mean for the status.

Early years apprenticeship group dismissed in GCSE deadlock

News

Friday, February 17, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government has dispensed with the Early Years Apprenticeship Trailblazer Group following a long-running stand-off over the inclusion of ‘reasonable equivalents’ to GCSE English and Maths in the new Level 3 apprenticeship standard.

Standards unveiled for new early years qualifications

News

Friday, July 12, 2013

| Nursery World

The long-awaited standards for Early Years Educators and Early Years Teachers have been published.

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.

Call for all nursery staff to be qualified in paediatric first aid

News

Monday, December 15, 2014

| Nursery World

MPs will debate in parliament today whether all nursery staff should be qualified in paediatric first aid, following a campaign by parents.

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.

Council nursery staff warn pay cuts will hit quality

News

Friday, August 19, 2016

| Nursery World

Nursery workers in Brighton and Hove have warned children will receive poorer quality care if the council goes ahead with its plans to cut their pay and working hours.