Last-minute preparations for end-of-term activities and the start of the summer holidays will be uppermost in early years practitioners' minds at the moment, but don't forget to lay plans for next...
How are the largest nursery groups bearing up in a difficult market? Catherine Gaunt reports on the latest ups and downs in the UK and Ireland's top 20 chains Aglance at the league table for our...
While reading the 15 January issue I saw an advertisement for NurseryCAM, which gives parents the chance to view their children at nursery via the internet. Having visited the company's website, I...
Funding for the entitlement for two-, three- and four-year-olds is likely to fall by 8 per cent in real-terms, according to research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which reveals the impact of...
Child Base, which runs 35 nurseries in the south-east of England, has been recognised as one of the top 100 companies to work for in the Sunday Times Best Companies Survey 2009.
Services that target vulnerable parents such as teenagers, the disabled and families facing separation are to have their funding extended until March 2009, children's minister Beverley Hughes has...
Two of the latest developments launched at the Educational Technology show in London last month were these giant Icon Cards and an inflatable remote control car, both from TTS. The cards are intended...
The Children's Workforce Development Council is touring the nine English regions to meet the workforce and discuss key issues for childcare. Unlike in previous years, each tour will focus on a...
I am a qualified NNEB with 15 years of experience behind me. I am also a registered childminder and take my job seriously. Many childminders have spent months in college doing courses on education,...
A total of 1,081 Nursery World readers took part, with one in five respondents coming from the south-east, 15 per cent from the Midlands, 11 per cent from the south-west and the rest fairly evenly...