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'Our sector is falling into deeper crisis'

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

| Nursery World

There are lots of things currently keeping nursery director Caroline El-Semman up at night. An ever-diminishing pool of potential recruits, spiralling operational costs and a government that doesn’t seem to care or understand. Will it be too late when the Government finally wakes up to the problems?

Management: queries - Too much information?

Features

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

| Nursery World

Our panel discusses how a manager should respond to a staff member who contacts them out of hours about non-urgent matters. By Gabriella Jozwiak

Integration: part 4 – Brand values

Features

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

| Nursery World

Some groups prefer a consistent name for acquisitions, while others prefer individuality. By Charlotte Goddard

Market View - Treading Carefully

Features

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

| Nursery World

Arun Kanwar, partner at Cairneagle Partners, reveals operators’ views on key market issues

Increasing the minimum wage to £15 an hour would be 'disastrous' for the sector

News

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

| Nursery World

Early years organisations believe if the minimum wage was increased to £15 per hour, as per the TUC's call, it would be 'impossible' for childcare settings to remain open.

Childcare Counsel - The New Right To Work Checking System

Features

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

| Nursery World

New regulations concerning right to work checks have come into effect. Hannah Belton, director of Morgan La Roche, explains.

Nuffield Foundation early childhood policy report – Poor decisions

Features

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

| Nursery World

England's early years spend is below par, explain Carey Oppenheim, early childhood lead, and Dr Claire Sewell, communications manager, at the Nuffield Foundation

Early years leadership qualifications: part 1 - Baby brains

Features

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

| Nursery World

In the first part of a new series on leadership qualifications, Charlotte Goddard focuses on the role of baby room leader.

Busy Bees acquires three nurseries in Hampshire

News

Friday, August 26, 2022

| Nursery World

Busy Bees Childcare, the largest nursery group in the UK, has bought Egg Day Nurseries, a family-owned organisation located in Andover and Winchester, which offers a total of 181 places for children.

Nottingham-based nursery group builds best practice with video-based interaction programme

News

Thursday, August 25, 2022

| Nursery World

Hollies Day Nurseries has become the first business in the UK to have all its nursery staff trained in the Marte Meo approach.

Grandir UK acquires the Maggie & Rose nursery group

News

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

| Nursery World

Grandir UK, which owns Kiddi Caru, has acquired all three Maggie & Rose nurseries based in London.

Urgent call for increased early years funding as inflation pushes up nursery costs

News

Friday, August 19, 2022

| Nursery World

The Government must invest in the early years to help providers fight the cost-of-living crisis as inflation reaches 10 per cent, the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has said.

Understanding staffing challenges – and finding solutions

Features

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

| Nursery World

New data compiled by specialist research company CACI provides insights into the demographics of nursery staff and suggests strategies when it comes to boosting recruitment and retention in the sector.

Hey! we need a new conversation about all things early years

Opinion

Friday, August 12, 2022

| Nursery World

James Hempsall explains why he has launched a new initiative to invite collaboration in the sector around the priorities for early years education, starting with an online conference in October.

Report suggests relaxing ratios and giving childminder agencies greater powers will ease childcare costs

News

Friday, August 12, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report looking at ways to reform childcare recommends staff: child ratios be relaxed further than the proposed 1:5 in 'good' and 'outstanding' nurseries and suggests childminder agencies take on a larger role within the sector.

Scottish childcare settings in nearly half of local authorities don't know their new funding rate

News

Thursday, August 11, 2022

| Nursery World

Nearly half of councils in Scotland have yet to make a decision on the hourly rates they will pay childcare providers from next week, reveals a FOI.

Latest on Welcome Nurseries: Group sells 26 settings as it goes into administration

News

Thursday, August 11, 2022

| Nursery World

Welcome Nurseries – the fourth largest nursery group in the UK – has gone through a pre-packaged administration sale of 26 of its settings, leaving the fate of the remaining nurseries and its staff unclear.

‘Future proofing’ your business – innovation and creating USPs

Knowledge Bank

Monday, August 8, 2022

| Nursery World

SPONSORED CONTENT Differentiating your offering and staying ahead of the curve is ‘critical’ in today’s marketplace, discovers Nicole Weinstein as she talks to nursery businesses driving forward innovation