A nursery nurse has started an online petition on the Prime Ministers official website demanding a national pay structure for all nursery nurses and teaching assistants.
Maureen Smith and Yvonne Nolan, co-founders of Duo Consulting and developers of the new APEL qualification APEL Level 3 Certificate in work with children(Early Years or Playwork), Unit 2: reflect on...
In the face of much concern about some aspects of the draft Early Years Foundation Stage, welcome news came this week that the Department for Education and Skills is proposing to put back the...
More reassuring noises came from the Government in the past week about its continuing commitment to expanding childcare, as trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt took to the stage at the...
The Government's 'cross-cutting' review of childcare policy which has finally been published makes for fascinating reading (see News, page 4), not least for the acknowledgement that 'important...
The news that neither early years nor playwork have succeeded in their bids to be one of the trailblazer Sector Skills Councils (see page 4) is not a terribly encouraging start to the new year, when...
Happy New Year from everybody at Nursery World. As practitioners and policymakers get back into the swing of things and contemplate another year packed with change and development, it's a good point...
Nursery World's regular section about Early Years Professional Status, sponsored by CWDC, is now online at www.nurseryworld.co.uk/eypupdate.
The Government has announced it is to give 11m to 11 voluntary and community organisations to deliver national online and telephone support for family support services.