Managers faced with staff shortages are reporting an increasing need for bank and agency staff. How can they be managed to help keep costs down? Karen Faux reports
The growing gap between the cost of a nursery place and parents' earnings is revealed in the annual childcare costs survey.
Most early years teachers don’t receive graduate-level pay, unlike the majority of those with Qualified Teacher Status, a survey has found.
An award-winning primary school has had architectural judges gushing over its design - but, asks Julian Grenier, have they asked the schoolchildren how they feel about it? The new Hampden Gurney...
Early years and childcare organisations responding to the Government's announcement that childcare vouchers will be extended to more working families are calling for a more simplified funding system...
Just a fraction of families eligible for Tax-Free Childcare are using it, Nursery World can reveal.
The Department for Education has announced an extension of supplementary funding for nursery schools, along with a boost to childcare funding rates of up to 8p per hour, per child.
Nursery workers and childminders will have to travel to test centres to access asymptomatic testing for Covid-19, unlike those working in nursery classes and maintained nurseries, who will be sent...
Labour is launching a programme of early years events, as part of what it is calling ‘a big conversation’ to talk to childcare providers and families.
More than a third of local authorities in England say they do not have enough childcare places for three- and four-year-olds, putting the Government’s plan to offer 30 hours of free childcare in...