Nurseries should be thinking about how they could put more into their customer service, says Theresa Ellerby, director of the Children's House in north-east Lincolnshire A great deal of customer...
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As early years practitioners return to their work with renewed vigour and enthusiasm after the break, Nursery World has some great new features for 2001. Our new eight-page pull-out series starts this...
There are always different ways of looking at things, and Government reports tend to be more open to interpretation than most. Take the new research into childcare and early years providers that has...
With the national daycare standards about to come into force from September, the Government might have been hoping that the furore over qualifications and training for early years workers had died...
Margaret Hodge's appointment as minister for children continued to attract a barrage of criticism last week from the press and opposition MPs (see News, page 4). One unfortunate consequence of the...
After many years of lobbying by childcare organisations, the Government's proposals to extend tax breaks for employer-supported childcare look set to make significant advances (see News, page 4). Tax...
However rewarding it is to work with children, there are times when all practitioners feel they are struggling, especially when new legislation adds to an already heavy burden of regulation and...
The Scottish government has placed haggis on a list of restricted foods for nursery schools. New guidelines on nutrition (see News, page 6) recommend that under-fives eat the famous delicacy no more...