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Interview: Meet Professor Angelica Ronald

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| Nursery World

Angelica Ronald is professor of psychology and genetics at the University of Surrey and recently led a study on how pre-school children’s fine motor skills, including drawing, folding paper and block-building, may play an important role in their later education and behaviour.

Neurodiversity: 'Fantastic' for activities

Features

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| Nursery World

Kerry Murphy and Fifi Benham provide activity tips in this edited extract of 50 Fantastic Ideas for Supporting Neurodiversity

Michael Pettavel: Government's 'golden hello' for early years recruits is backwards thinking

Opinion

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| Nursery World

The Government’s pilot of offering a cash bonus to new-starters in early years shows how desperate it is in the absence of proper policy and ideas

STORY TIME

Other

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| Nursery World

Tops Winchester and The Rocking Horse Nursery in London both marked National Storytelling Week.

CHINESE NEW YEAR

Other

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| Nursery World

Toddlers at Pitter Patter Day Nursery and Pre-school in the Wirral, Merseyside marked Chinese New Year.

Failure to support children's early communication will cost the economy £830m

News

Monday, February 26, 2024

| Nursery World

Cross-society failure to support early years communication and language development could cost the economy up to £830 million for every year group starting school through the loss of lifetime earnings and increased Government spend, according to a new study.

Working families on the 'breadline' would need to work eight days a week to escape poverty

News

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Nursery World

New analysis by Action for Children suggests 300,000 low-income families with children are trapped in poverty despite parents working full-time.

Seven things to consider when selling your day nursery

Features

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Nursery World

Christie & Co's Nick Brown shares seven top tips.

£5bn shortfall in funding for extended ‘childcare’ offer

News

Thursday, February 22, 2024

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There is a £5 billion per year gap between Government funding and the estimated cost of delivery to providers of the Government’s expanded childcare offer once fully rolled out, says think tank.

Concerns the expanded offer isn't 'workable in practice' due to limited space and providers capping places

News

Thursday, February 22, 2024

| Nursery World

Early years providers will struggle to meet increased demand for funded places once the expanded offer comes in due to staffing and space shortages, suggest new findings.

Parents unlikely to benefit much financially under expanded offer

News

Thursday, February 22, 2024

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For a third of parents, the expanded ‘childcare’ offer will save them less than £100 a month due to charges for extras and increased fees outside of the funding, new research suggests.

Labour accuses Government of 'failing families' over soaring childcare costs

News

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

| Nursery World

Analysis of childcare costs by Labour shows that the average cost of a part-time childcare place has risen by 80 per cent since 2010 when the party was last in office.

Growing number of parents getting into debt to pay for 'childcare'

News

Sunday, February 18, 2024

| Nursery World

Nearly half of parents have been plunged into debt or withdrawn their savings to pay for childcare, new figures show.

Early years job vacancies up by 146 per cent on pre-pandemic levels

News

Friday, February 16, 2024

| Nursery World

Job vacancies for early years practitioners have risen by 146 per cent since before the Covid-19 pandemic, reveals new data.

Oxford University Press launches augmented and virtual reality EYFS app for pre-school children and parents

News

Friday, February 16, 2024

| Nursery World

Education experts at Oxford University Press have designed a new app for pre-school children to use with their parents, which uses augmented and virtual reality activities to support the areas of learning in the EYFS.