Some councils are wrongly withholding thousands of pounds in contingency funding. Jo Parkes speaks to settings who have successfully claimed it back
Supplied by Janis Crutch, chef and co-owner of Little Monkey's Nursery, Windsor
It may be that by the time you read this, the Department for Education's page on gov.uk will have been updated with full details of the ministers' briefs and exactly where responsibility for...
* This week's national strike by local government workers, including nursery nurses and classroom assistants, was suspended after a pay deal raised the earnings of the lowest paid workers by nearly 11...
* We have ten copies of Maternity Pay and Leave: A Guide for Employers (5.00) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'Maternity...
In the first of a new series looking at common issues highlighted in Ofsted reports, Pennie Akehurst, former head of the Early Years and Childcare Service at Derbyshire County Council, discusses the...
Explore the world under the water with an exciting new Foundation Stage project by nursery school headteacher Ann Adb El Kader This project provides opportunities for children to learn about marine...
It's all talk in this week's issue of Nursery World - but that certainly doesn't mean no action, as you'll discover when you read on. In our six-page, special pull-out guide (pages 15-20), Di...
New measures from the Government do not bode well for many in the early years.