Childcare training company Smart Training has been awarded top marks by the Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI), earning it the distinction of achieving some of the highest grades ever by a childcare...
Bambinos Childcare Centres, a group of four nurseries in Plymouth, has been bought by Chinese education investment company JiaYi Education. We asked Jemma Honey about the changes
The staff recruitment crisis is no problem for one nursery in Renfrewshire. Rosemary Elliot, one of the owner-managers of Cairellot day nursery, says she has not had to advertise for staff for at...
Leeds City Council is planning to launch a two-year pilot programme to give graduates coming fresh to the early years and childcare sector a practical route to EYP Status.
Nurseries should offer financial training to all their nursery staff, which would help them run their setting in a more sustainable way and allow them to pass savings on to parents, the finance...
Playworkers who want to gain senior practitioner status will soon have the opportunity to study for the UK's first sector-endorsed Foundation Degree in Playwork. SkillsActive, the Sector Skills...
The Government’s failure to manage asbestos in schools is putting children and teaching staff at needless risk, warn campaigners and unions.
Children's centre staff in Wandsworth and Lewisham will be taught how to raise the issue of tackling childhood obesity with families, as part of a new programme commissioned by the NHS.
The winning consortium of children's services organisations that will be working with local authorities to plan and develop children's centres will be named this week, Nursery World has learned. In...
The Government has proposed a career structure for classroom assistants in England that could result in significant pay rises for some. The four-part structure is described in a draft paper being...