Find out what the courses leading to three new qualifications for childcarers involve, as Mary Evans talks to one of the first students When the country's pre-schools stopped for the summer holidays...
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...
The Final Report issues a challenge to both the Government and the sector itself, says Helen Moylett.
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 - ...
In association with Flair and Mail Order Express, we are able to offer four fantastic sets of Melissa and Doug developmental toys in a prize draw. Many of you will already be fans of Melissa and Doug...