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Ofsted: The New Inspection Framework, Part 7 - Strong leadership inspires confidence

Friday, March 8, 2013

| Nursery World

In the concluding part of her inspection series, Laura Henry explains how setting managers should adopt a holistic approach to ensure that staff perform to the very best of their ability.

Ofsted early years consultation: investment is key, sector says

News

Friday, April 19, 2013

| Nursery World

There has been a mixed response from the early years sector to Ofsted's proposals to increase the frequency of inspections for weaker settings and replace the grade of 'satisfactory' with 'requires improvement'.

Managing Equality and Diversity: Part 1 - Equal measures

Features

Friday, January 4, 2019

| Nursery World

Gabriella Jozwiak introduces the first part of a new series on managing inclusion, with a look at what the term means in context, and a guide to the legal requirements

Quality care hangs in the balance

News

Friday, May 17, 2013

| Nursery World

The staff:child ratio changes ignore the competing demands on staff particularly from children with emotional needs and the new two-year-old intake, says Pat Gordon-Smith.

Ofsted clampdown sees early years grades fall

News

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

| Nursery World

The latest statistics for early years inspections show that Ofsted is being tougher on childminders and nurseries with more being judged inadequate and fewer given an outstanding grade.

Exclusive - Analysis uncovers true cost of party childcare pledges

News

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

| Nursery World

Data experts have costed the three main parties' pledges on extended free childcare.

Pre-School Learning Alliance requests Ofsted data on inspection outcomes

News

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

| Nursery World

The Pre-School Learning Alliance (PLA) has filed a Freedom of Information (FOI) request with Ofsted asking for data on the number of early years settings downgraded in recent inspections.

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

Ofsted: The new inspection framework, part 5 - Treat parents as your fellow professionals

Features

Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Under the new regime inspectors will be keen to see that parents are welcomed, respected and well informed, as this relationship is key to children's progress, says Laura Henry.

Outstanding nursery's 'inadequate' downgrade over mobile snaps

News

Monday, February 8, 2016

| Nursery World

A previously outstanding nursery has been downgraded to inadequate after staff photographed children on their mobiles and sent the pictures to parents.

Government brings forward 30-hour childcare and funding review

News

Monday, June 1, 2015

| Nursery World

David Cameron will today unveil plans for a funding review to start ‘before the summer’ in advance of a pilot of 30 hours of free childcare from September 2016.

Ofsted set for radical overhaul to unite education inspections

News

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

| Nursery World

Early years settings, schools and colleges will be inspected under a new common inspection framework from September, with shorter and more frequent inspections.

Ethnicity pay gap

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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government is consulting employers over plans to introduce new ethnicity pay reporting rules.

Guide to: Tax-free Childcare Vs Vouchers

Features

Monday, July 23, 2018

| Nursery World

As part of a new series of handy guides on management issues, we look at Tax-Free Childcare and compare the system to childcare vouchers

Coronavirus: DfE updates early years guidance in response to PM 'roadmap'

News

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

| Nursery World

Wraparound childcare, including care provided by childminders, can restart from 8 March, as part of the gradual easing of lockdown restrictions announced yesterday.

Managing SEND, Part 1: Legislation - Special cases

Features

Monday, October 16, 2017

| Nursery World

What pressures do managers face specific to children with special needs, and how should they deal with them? In the first of a new series on the subject, Karen Faux reviews the legal framework

Opposition parties win childcare voucher extension

News

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

| Nursery World

The scrapping of childcare vouchers has been delayed, after Labour forced a vote on the issue in the House of Commons yesterday.

New apprenticeships funding system 'will widen training and jobs gap'

News

Monday, March 27, 2017

| Nursery World

The apprenticeship levy will worsen the North-South divide in training opportunities and jobs, a leading think-tank has warned.

Confusion as settings ‘hounded’ to pay for music licences

News

Monday, April 17, 2017

| Nursery World

Childcare providers are challenging music licensing bodies which claim they must pay to play recorded music in their settings.

Nursery Management: Business - 25 years of changes

Features

Monday, September 22, 2014

| Nursery World

Nursery owner and University of Warwick lecturer Caroline Jones has seen a raft of changes to early years legislation and inspection since she set up her first nursery at her home in 1989. Here, she provides an insight into the way early years has transformed over time.

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