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Nursery chain offers 'babble to chatter' scheme

Thursday, April 16, 2015

| Nursery World

The UK’s largest nursery group Busy Bees has launched a new training programme to help practitioners to develop children’s early language skills.

Charities call for graduate-led nurseries to boost children's early language

News

Thursday, April 9, 2015

| Nursery World

A coalition of organisations concerned with early language are calling for every nursery in England to be led by a graduate by 2020.

Largest ever increase to National Minimum Wage from October

News

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| Nursery World

The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister have today announced increases to the national minimum wage, including a 20 per cent rise to the amount apprentices are paid an hour.

Campaign to save nursery schools intensifies

News

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

| Nursery World

A major new report released today (11 March) calls for urgent action to protect and expand maintained nursery schools, as many are being closed or amalgamated.

Clegg defends funding record but calls for councils to pass on more

News

Thursday, February 19, 2015

| Nursery World

Councils should pass more free entitlement funding on to childcare providers, Nick Clegg said today.

Expansion of scheme that encourages ex-soldiers into teaching

News

Monday, February 16, 2015

| Nursery World

The Troops to Teachers programme will be extended through a link with the University of Brighton.

Labour commits to protecting early years funding

News

Thursday, February 12, 2015

| Nursery World

Early years and school funding would be protected ‘in real terms',under a Labour Government.

New children's commissioner for Wales named

News

Friday, January 30, 2015

| Nursery World

Sally Holland has been appointed as the new children’s commissioner for Wales.

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.

Editor's view - On course for a recruitment nightmare

Opinion

Monday, December 15, 2014

| Nursery World

After all the wrangling about the qualifications required to start or finish the new Early Years Educator level 3 courses, we are starting to see some alarming effects on recruitment to the sector.

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.

Government set to delete 'five year rule' on GCSE re-sits

News

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government is set to back down over controversial rules which could force hundreds of apprentices to retake valid GCSEs.

Lib Dems would give Early Years Teachers right to QTS

News

Thursday, November 27, 2014

| Nursery World

The Liberal Democrats would ensure that Early Years Teachers would be able to achieve qualified teacher status.

Early years trainer takes Government to court on re-sits

News

Monday, November 3, 2014

| Nursery World

An early years trainer is taking the Government to court over rules which he says mean apprentices will be forced to take ‘completely unnecessary re-sits’ of their GCSEs.

A far-reaching vision for the workforce in Wales

Opinion

Monday, October 6, 2014

| Nursery World

Huw Lewis, minister for education and skills, Wales, explains the Welsh Government's plans for the early years

Consultation on the draft 10-year plan for the early years, childcare and play workforce in Wales

Other

Thursday, September 25, 2014

| Nursery World

The draft plan outlines the Welsh Government's goals for the early years, childcare and play workforce and sets out how it proposes to support this agenda.

Wales plans to raise the bar for early years workforce

News

Monday, September 22, 2014

| Nursery World

A ten-year plan to improve the qualification levels and status of the early years, childcare and play sector in Wales is set out today.

Free entitlement should be linked to quality of early years settings

News

Thursday, August 28, 2014

| Nursery World

A think tank is calling for early education funding to be given only to providers who can show they are ‘raising their game’.

Apprenticeship trailblazer members walk out

News

Monday, August 25, 2014

| Nursery World

Three members of the Government's 'trailblazer' group for early years apprenticeships have left and been replaced, amid complaints the employers' group 'lacked democracy'.