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...
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...
Hot on the heels of Bright Horizons Family Solutions' acquisition of Kinderquest, Busy Bees has snapped up the Lancashire-based Kindercare Childcare Centres group (see News, page 4), taking it to...
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...
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 - ...
(Photograph) - Bob the Builder is getting out of his dungarees and into his jeans to help fix it for sick children across the UK. He's joined forces with the national Jeans for Genes Appeal, led by...
The British public is broadly in favour of men working in childcare but has some reservations, according to a MORI poll of 2,000 adults commissioned by the Daycare Trust. Seventy-seven per cent of the...
In the first of a new series on planning for the Foundation Stage, <B> Jane Drake </B> focuses on the book area to show how practitioners can think ahead in the long, medium and short term for...
Private daycare providers could face a cash-flow crisis and a threat to their viability under a new code of practice covering the provision of free nursery places to three- and four-year-olds that the...