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After five years of delays, the new Level 3 early years apprenticeship standard is finally here. So what’s new? Hannah Crown looks at the end-point assessment
All newly qualified Level 2 and 3 entrants to the early years workforce must have a paediatric first-aid (PFA) certificate within three months of starting work in order to be included in ratios.
We have ten copies of Wet World by Norma Simon (Walker Books, 4.99) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'Wet World', to the...
We report in this issue on interesting moves in Islington, north London, where a council pilot scheme is keeping reception-age children at children's centres to complete the whole of the Foundation...
Giving poor families 3 more per child per week in the child tax credit would enable the Government to reach its target for reducing child poverty to 3.1 million by 2004-05, according to the Institute...
The Government's aim of having every early years practitioner qualified to at least Level 3 by 2015 is looking far from achievable, given the funding crisis for childcare work-based courses and...
'The children who walk the road to Holy Cross are groomed, consciously or not, for news bulletins and paraded for the cameras. See their misery. Study the terror that the spitters, the screamers, the...
In the face of much concern about some aspects of the draft Early Years Foundation Stage, welcome news came this week that the Department for Education and Skills is proposing to put back the...
After a year of relatively little activity in terms of nursery group acquisitions and mergers, 2006 has finished with a definite bang - witness the 70m sale of Busy Bees to the Australian giant ABC...