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...
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 - ...
High quality outdoors provision is vital for children's development. <B>Jan White</B> looks at a new scheme to help settings deliver it
By Elaine Wain, a lecturer and NVQ co-ordinator for North West Kent College in Dartford Both the key skills and framework set out by the Early Years National Training Organisation are unrealistic. I...
Look out for our special guide to combating obesity in young children in our next issue, out 5 September
Children at Happy Days Nursery in West Bromwich have been attending regular meet-ups with a local group of elderly people who attend a tea dance at the local community centre.