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Many fine words are uttered about the need to raise the status of the early years workforce and the professionalism of the sector. Around 600,000 people are now working in early years in an...
The three main political parties have been busy making statements about parenting and work-life balance during and leading up to their annual conferences (see News, pages 5 and 6). A major...
What price universal childcare? As publication of the Government's ten-year plan looms, various lobbying organisations have been coming up with some firm figures for the funding needed to make the...
Baroness Blackstone, Minister of State for the Arts, launched 'Quality Training, Quality Play', the new National Strategy for Playwork Education, Training and Qualifications 2002-2005 last month (for...
Schools across the country are up in arms about shortfalls in their budget allocations which, they say, mean that it will be impossible for them to implement the Workload Reduction Agreement, with...
Nearly all of us feel that we watch too much television, and that we should make a bigger effort to do other things. Nearly all of us believe that our children watch too much TV, though we can be only...
I felt I had to write to congratulate Nursery World on the eight-page pull-out 'A world view' (4 September). Dr Helen Penn's feature provided fascinating reading that resulted in a few surprises - ...
More than 1,000 funded places for three- and four-year-olds in Buckinghamshire could be lost because a group of pre-schools say they cannot remain sustainable without more funding when the free...
Just under three in ten former childcare students are not working in the sector 15 months after completing their NVQ level 3 course, the Thomas Coram Research Unit has found. The research, carried out...
Despite entering a new year in the shadow of Omicron, the sector is united in its determination to improve provision for all children