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Action needed to recruit and retain early years teachers

Thursday, April 7, 2016

| Nursery World

The Government needs to end disparity between EYTS and QTS if we’re to recruit more graduates into early years settings, says Deborah Harris, senior lecturer in Early Childhood Education and Care at Newman University

30 hours funding: many in the dark, while some face cuts

News

Monday, April 4, 2016

| Nursery World

Early years providers around the country had not been informed of 2016/17 funding rates for three- and four-year-olds only a few days before the new financial year began.

'Low-pay childcare sector can't afford National Living Wage'

News

Friday, April 1, 2016

| Nursery World

The national living wage has come into force today - as childcare providers say they cannot afford to pay it without raising fees.

Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

News

Thursday, March 31, 2016

| Nursery World

The YouTube video has been launched by a group of nursery owners to campaign against the government’s policies on the free entitlement.

Call for independent review after DfE response to funding queries

News

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

| Nursery World

Ceeda director Dr Jo Verrill unpicks the Government’s response to queries about how a range of costs have been accounted for in its 30-hour funding review - and finds some concerning gaps

Nursery Management: Training - Under one roof

Features

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Settings are trying to GCSE-proof future staff via bespoke training. Charlotte Goddard investigates

Multi-Agency Working: Part 3 - Big data

Features

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Data systems commonly pose big problems for providers, local authorities and health trusts alike. In the third part of our series on information sharing, Hannah Crown looks at computer-related challenges

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.

Nursery Management: Policy & Politics - Quantity over quality

Features

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Using extracts from his new book on the subject, Damien Fitzgerald argues that the Government’s approach to early years policy has substantially reduced the essential focus on quality

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.

More graduates eligible for Early Years Teacher training bursaries

News

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

| Nursery World

The DfE has extended the bursary scheme for graduate entry to Early Years Teacher Status courses to those with 2.2 degrees for 2016/17.

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.

Ofsted to bring early years inspections in-house

News

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

| Nursery World

Early years organisations have unanimously welcomed Ofsted’s decision to bring early years inspections in-house from next year.

Family and Childcare Trust Survey: shortage of places puts 30-hour childcare in doubt

News

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

| Nursery World

More than a third of local authorities in England say they do not have enough childcare places for three- and four-year-olds, putting the Government’s plan to offer 30 hours of free childcare in jeopardy, a major report warns.

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

Multi-Agency Working: Part 2 - It’s good to share

Features

Monday, February 22, 2016

| Nursery World

Information-sharing between organisations is at the core of multi-agency working. In the second instalment of this series, Hannah Crown looks at the issues than can arise among practitioners

'Work with us on 30 hours'

Opinion

Monday, February 22, 2016

| Nursery World

Sam Gyimah, minister for education and childcare, argues that the early years sector needs to get behind the 30 hours free childcare policy

Majority of nurseries may not offer 30-hour childcare

News

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

| Nursery World

The Government’s plans to double free childcare for parents of three- and four-year-olds could come to a grinding halt as fewer than half of the country’s nurseries say they are likely to offer the places.

Paying nursery staff just £1.45 an hour more could boost poor quality to outstanding

News

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

| Nursery World

The link between staff pay and a nursery's Ofsted grade is exposed in a new report by the Family and Childcare Trust.

House of Commons nursery 'viable' despite £1m bill

News

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

| Nursery World

The House of Commons has declared its nursery ‘viable’ following a number of years spent loss-making.

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.

Increase staff flexibility to make ends meet, says DfE

News

Monday, February 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Following the Government’s review of childcare costs, Dr Jo Verrill, managing director of Ceeda, asks if more use of ‘variable staffing models’ is feasible

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Action needed to recruit and retain early years teachers

30 hours funding: many in the dark, while some face cuts

'Low-pay childcare sector can't afford National Living Wage'

Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

Call for independent review after DfE response to funding queries

Nursery Management: Training - Under one roof

Multi-Agency Working: Part 3 - Big data

Funding - Missing pieces in the 30-hour funding review

Nursery Management: Ratios - Keeping it in proportion

Nursery Management: Business - Costs cocktail

DfE does not possess the data used in childcare costs report

Nursery Management: Policy & Politics - Quantity over quality

Budget: Small nurseries taken out of business rates

More graduates eligible for Early Years Teacher training bursaries

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

Ofsted to bring early years inspections in-house

Family and Childcare Trust Survey: shortage of places puts 30-hour childcare in doubt

NDNA survey: most settings wary of 30 hours

Multi-Agency Working: Part 2 - It’s good to share

'Work with us on 30 hours'

Majority of nurseries may not offer 30-hour childcare

Paying nursery staff just £1.45 an hour more could boost poor quality to outstanding

House of Commons nursery 'viable' despite £1m bill

Outstanding nursery's 'inadequate' downgrade over mobile snaps

Increase staff flexibility to make ends meet, says DfE

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