Search | Nursery World

Skip to main content

Search Results

Found 42,437 results for .

Keeping children healthy indoors, part 3: on the floor

Thursday, April 30, 2020

| Nursery World

The floor is a fantastic piece of apparatus, and often overlooked when we are thinking of ways to support children’s physical activity, so try these ideas in part 3 of our parent's guides to keeping children physically active indoors during the coronavirus lockdown.

Free wellbeing-themed online CPD launched

Thursday, April 30, 2020

| Nursery World

A free programme of CPD covering wellbeing-themed topics such as anxiety and child neglect has been launched.

Coronavirus guidance: a handy summary

Thursday, April 30, 2020

| Nursery World

A raft of guidance has been produced since the country went into lockdown. Here is a handy summary of key guidance and dates, with links to further, official, information:

Children's screen time up by two hours a day in lockdown

Thursday, April 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Young children are spending an extra two hours a day in front of a screen since lockdown began, according to research from children’s reading charity BookTrust.

Settings provide vital support to disadvantaged and vulnerable children

Thursday, April 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Early years settings are providing invaluable extra support for disadvantaged and vulnerable children during the lockdown, as shown in the responses of three London nurseries. Caroline Vollans reports

UK watchdog to investigate parents' complaints against nurseries over fees

Thursday, April 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Nurseries and childcare providers, along with holiday companies and wedding venues, are being investigated for failing to provide refunds.

Let's talk about vital support for the early years sector

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

| Nursery World

Dear Minister... Urgent attention is needed to keep childcare and early years education at the forefront of the UK's recovery from the coronavirus crisis, say the four largest early years organisations

DfE releases more early years guidance on funding and claiming for furloughed staff

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has published guidance on how it expects local authorities to re-distribute funding among early years providers to ensure there are enough places for children of key workers and vulnerable children during the coronavirus outbreak.

Coronavirus: Early years organisations join forces to petition government

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

| Nursery World

The four largest early years organisations are asking the government for an urgent meeting to discuss how the sector can get the support it needs to play a vital role in the UK's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

Government confirms EYFS relaxations for coronavirus outbreak

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

| Nursery World

The Government has put into force temporary changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage framework for early years providers remaining open in the coronavirus outbreak.

Prepare to meet the new reality of early childhood

Monday, April 27, 2020

| Nursery World

We don’t just need an exit strategy...we need a new reality for early childhood, says Eunice Lumsden, head of early years at the University of Northampton

Childcare providers facing postcode lottery of support in pandemic

Friday, April 24, 2020

| Nursery World

Childcare providers are facing a postcode lottery of approaches to early years funding during the coronavirus lockdown, with some councils not paying for children in new settings while others are paying cash incentives for providers to stay open.

Coronavirus testing extended to early years workers and teachers

Friday, April 24, 2020

| Nursery World

Early years workers and teachers will now be able to access tests for Covid-19, in Government measures to extend testing.

Keeping children healthy indoors, part 2: Bathtime

Thursday, April 23, 2020

| Nursery World

Bathtime can be a time of fun and exercise, in part 2 of our parent's guides to keeping children physically active indoors during the coronavirus lockdown.

Coronavirus: Warning that 250,000 childcare places could be lost

Thursday, April 23, 2020

| Nursery World

According to childcare.co.uk, nearly a sixth of providers could close permanently as a result of the pandemic.

Coronavirus: Families ‘teetering on the brink’ a month into lockdown

Thursday, April 23, 2020

| Nursery World

Frontline staff are being overwhelmed by the needs of millions of frightened, vulnerable families, who a month into the lockdown are facing life on the breadline, warns children’s charity Action for Children.

Coronavirus: First figures show 65,000 children going to early years settings

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

| Nursery World

Around 65,000 children are currently attending early years settings, according to Department for Education research – about four per cent of the number who usually attend in term time.

Councils 'can transfer funding between settings' - new DfE guidance

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

| Nursery World

Councils are being encouraged to transfer early entitlement funding between early years settings if it helps them to create enough childcare places for key worker children.

Nursery staff's fear and pride working on the frontline

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

| Nursery World

Annette Rawstrone speaks to early years leaders and practitioners about coping with the risks of caring for other critical workers' children in the coronavirus pandemic

Children's Minister hits back at furlough backtrack claims

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

| Nursery World

Children’s Minister Vicky Ford has issued a strong rebuttal to early years providers’ claims that the Government has backtracked over furlough funding.

Nurseries reveal impact of furlough changes

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

| Nursery World

Nurseries around the UK - both large chains and standalone providers - have voiced their concerns about staying open, following the change in official guidance as to how how much they can claim for staff on furlough.

Thousands sign petition against Government cut to furlough funding for nurseries

Monday, April 20, 2020

| Nursery World

Thousands of childcare providers and parents have signed a petition calling for the Government to reinstate full furlough funding, after a previous commitment to pay early years staff under the coronavirus job retention scheme was watered down on Friday evening.

'I fear this uncalculated decision will result in many nurseries closing to key workers'

Monday, April 20, 2020

| Nursery World

I speak for all nursery owners when I say that the news that the Government will not grant the full 80 per cent furlough contribution to private nurseries, has completely shocked settings throughout the country, says Liverpool nursery owner Sue Poole

Coronavirus: Home learning initiatives launch for new school term

Monday, April 20, 2020

| Nursery World

Two initiatives aimed at supporting children while schools are closed have launched today (Monday 20 April) as term restarts after the Easter holidays.

Shadow early years minister to meet with sector to discuss coronavirus impact

Friday, April 17, 2020

| Nursery World

Shadow early years minister Tulip Siddiq is holding a virtual roundtable meeting next week with representatives from the early years and childcare sector to hear the challenges providers face in the Covid-19 crisis.

Current filters

Remove All [ X ]

True?Query=?Orderby=Publisheddate?Page=1?Pagesize=15?Tags/Name=Editor%E2%80%99S%20View%7Cchild%20Development [ X ]

Filter by

Tags

Article Types

30018 News
6255 Features
3377 Other
1749 Opinion
955 Review
67 Knowledge Bank
13 Employer Zone
3 Practical

Journals

Tags

Article Types

30018 News
6255 Features
3377 Other
1749 Opinion
955 Review
67 Knowledge Bank
13 Employer Zone
3 Practical

© MA Education 2024. Published by MA Education Limited, St Jude's Church, Dulwich Road, Herne Hill, London SE24 0PB, a company registered in England and Wales no. 04002826. MA Education is part of the Mark Allen Group. – All Rights Reserved