How to square the circle of quality and sustainability remains the biggest challenge, and in this issue of Nursery Management we investigate the factors currently working for - or against it. With 4bn...
‘Birth to 5 Matters – Guidance by the sector, for the sector’ is on track to be launched later this month after the final sector consultation on the non-statutory Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)...
In an extract from her book Essential Nursery Management, manager Susan Hay advises that success is a matter of getting priorities right.
Failings in a nursery's management and by Ofsted and a local authority meant that concerns about a nursery assistant who raped a toddler were missed.
Effective School Management by K B Everard, Geoffrey Morris and Ian Wilson (Paul Chapman Publishing, 19.99) This is the fourth edition of this title and it has been extended to include several new and...
The call by Alan Bentley, chairman of nursery group Childcare Corporation, for the private nursery sector to form a new trade association to represent its interests may seem to have come out of the...
While children's minister Sarah Teather continues to reassure the early years sector that it is still a priority, there are fears that lack of ring-fencing around vital money-streams will inevitably...
The RNID information line telephone number is 0808 808 0123, not 0808 9808 0123 as stated on page 5 of last week's Nursery World.
For the first time early years and childcare practitioners will be able to undertake a specialist early years Level 5 QCF qualification designed primarily for people working full-time in an early...
A two-year online foundation degree in Management of Childcare Provision is offered by Liverpool Hope University.