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Ofsted unveils childminder agency handbook

    News
  • Wednesday, August 27, 2014
  • | Nursery World
Ofsted has published its new Childminder agency handbook, along with the application forms that people will need if they wish to apply to become an agency.

Nursery Chains: League tables - Buying time

    Features
  • Wednesday, October 28, 2009
  • | Nursery World
The past year has seen consolidation in the sector with the major chains growing through acquisitions and the number of places rising, despite the ongoing economic recession. Catherine Gaunt reports.

Council plans may force settings to get vehicle licences

    News
  • Monday, May 4, 2015
  • | Nursery World
Nurseries in Barrow-in-Furness are fighting against costly council plans to make them take out private hire licences for the vehicles they use for pick-ups and drop-offs. The plans would cost them thousands of pounds a year if they go ahead, with settings facing fines or legal action if they do not comply.

Take twos...giving children confidence

    Features
  • Friday, June 8, 2012
  • | Nursery World
James Hempsall outlines how one nursery has seized the opportunity to develop its key worker system in order to deliver an outstanding offer to its large number of twos.

Top-up fee ban 'will split nursery sector', providers warn

    News
  • Tuesday, March 29, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Private and voluntary nursery providers have warned that a two-tier system will be created, with children from disadvantaged families losing out on nursery places, following the announcement by children's minister Sarah Teather in last week's Nursery World that the Government will not change the rules on the free entitlement and remove the ban on top-up fees.

Labour sets out universal childcare plans

    News
  • Tuesday, May 30, 2017
  • | Nursery World
Labour has released more details of how it would offer 30-hour childcare to all two- to four-year-olds - 1.3m children - and reverse children’s centre cuts.

New twist to male recruitment drive

    News
  • Wednesday, October 13, 2010
  • | Nursery World
A local authority that has been campaigning to get more men into childcare has added two podcasts to its recruitment drive.

Norland Nursery to close

    News
  • Wednesday, May 22, 2013
  • | Nursery World
Norland College is closing its setting in Bath in August to re-focus its activity on the 'core business' of training students in professional childcare.

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