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Minister confirms workforce strategy for next year

News

Friday, December 4, 2015

| Nursery World

Childcare minister Sam Gyimah has confirmed that there will be a workforce strategy established next year.

Link 30 hours to workforce development: PACEY

News

Monday, January 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Ministers should consider restricting the 30-hour offer to those settings that are graded Good or Outstanding, a leading early years organisation argues.

GCSE requirements to be reviewed

News

Friday, July 1, 2016

| Nursery World

Sam Gyimah has promised a review of the GCSE requirements at Level 3.

Workforce Strategy, Part 6: Diversity - Mirror, mirror

Features

Monday, January 8, 2018

| Nursery World

What progress is being made on representation of men in childcare, and what about other groups? asks Charlotte Goddard

"It doesn't take GCSEs..."

Opinion

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

| Nursery World

"It doesn't take GCSE's or anything else to change nappies, just common sense" - comments on the Nutbrown Review. Julian Grenier gives his response on his latest blog

Government launches drive to attract T-Level students

News

Monday, October 7, 2019

| Nursery World

The Government has launched a new advertising campaign, website and action plan on T-Levels, ahead of the launch of the Education and Childcare T-level from next September.

Viewpoint: New Level 3 questions

Opinion

Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Will the new Early Years Educator qualifications be the modern equivalent of the NNEB?, asks Early Education

Degree-level practitioners sought for DfE mentoring programme

News

Friday, November 12, 2021

| Nursery World

The DfE is looking for early years 'experts', 'mentors' and 'area leads' for its leadership support and mentoring programme – one of a number of measures announced as part of the £153m Early Years Recovery programme.

Survey highlights 'sector-wide' early years workforce crisis

News

Thursday, December 2, 2021

| Nursery World

More than eight in ten early years settings are struggling to recruit staff and half of them are having to turn away new parents because of staff shortages, sector research suggests.

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

Scottish degree has positive impact on leadership

News

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

New research highlights the positive impact of the new early years degree-level qualification for leaders and managers of the early years and childcare workforce in Scotland.

New Ofsted Inspection Framework: Part 4 - How to achieve strong, responsive leadership

Features

Monday, April 21, 2014

| Nursery World

In the concluding part of her series, Lena Engel examines what it takes to be an effective manager and an inspiring leader.

DfE announces extension to early years training programme to support children's language skills

News

Monday, September 6, 2021

| Nursery World

Up to 2,000 childcare practitioners are set to benefit from the second phase of the Government’s Early Years Professional Development programme (PDP) to boost children's early language and numeracy skills.

Level 5 standard in dispute

News

Monday, February 3, 2020

| Nursery World

A tug of war is taking place over whether the Level 5 apprenticeship standard should contain a foundation degree or the standard ‘licence to practice’ at Level 3, Nursery World has learned.

Editor's view - Now we have proof of the benefits Early Years Professionals bring

Features

Monday, August 8, 2011

| Nursery World

The EYFS and Early Years Professional Status are widely acknowledged to have improved practice.

Irish Government announces €85m package of childcare measures

News

Friday, October 23, 2015

| Nursery World

Delivering Budget 2016, Ireland’s ministers announced €85m in new childcare funding to improve the country’s provision.

Apprenticeship levy warning to early years sector

News

Thursday, August 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Settings are urged to air their views in the Government’s apprenticeship levy consultation after a leading training provider warned that ‘catastrophic’ funding cuts are in store.

Capita scraps Strategies' replacement amid concerns over budgets

News

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

| Nursery World

Edsight, the education consultancy set up by Capita to fill the gap left by the closure of National Strategies last month, has been axed.

Early years qualifications extension welcomed

News

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

| Nursery World

Colleges and awarding bodies have been reacting to the decision by the Children's Workforce Development Council to extend the deadline for offering some early years and childcare qualifications until January 2012.