Despite DfE claims that childcare settings will now receive a ‘boost’ in funding rates (as of last week - 1 September), many providers say they are to receive £5 or less per hour for three and...
To register your interest in the Pre-School Learning Alliance's latest campaign, 'Feeding Young Imaginations', please call 020 7833 0991 - not the mobile numbers printed in Nursery World on page 5, 1...
Effective management remains key to tackling the sector's ongoing challenge of recruiting and retaining enthusiastic and capable early years practitioners.
The new Level 5 apprenticeship has attracted a lot of interest. Charlotte Goddard finds out all about it
Get up to speed with the all the latest Government proposals and find out what they could mean for your business by taking a look at the current issue of our Nursery Management supplement.
The Scottish Pre-School Play Association has published a policy pack to help playgroups sign up to good practice. The pack includes guidelines on behaviour management, staff development, child...
Thousands of early years and childcare workers are currently unable to undertake a Level 5 qualification in childcare because there is no Government funding available to them.
The Government climbdown on the proposal to relax the staff:child ratios in nurseries and childminders felt like a huge victory for the early years sector.
For the first time early years and childcare practitioners will be able to undertake a specialist early years Level 5 QCF qualification designed primarily for people working full-time in an early...
‘Birth to 5 Matters – Guidance by the sector, for the sector’ is on track to be launched later this month after the final sector consultation on the non-statutory Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)...