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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...
Pay continues to be a pressing issue for practitioners and nurseries and was recently brought to the fore by Daycare Trust's Raising the Bar report.
A tug of war is taking place over whether the Level 5 apprenticeship standard should contain a foundation degree or the standard ‘licence to practice’ at Level 3, Nursery World has learned.
'The last two years have been the most difficult of my 23-year career, because a high percentage of my staff have become pregnant,' says Bright Beginnings owner Janice Taylor. 'We have a 50-place...
Take-up of childcare places reveals the flaws in the market, says Helen Penn.
As a graduate (in something unrelated to childcare) I am able to go straight for professional status, even though I am not a manager. I have had to think long and hard about delaying EYPS in order to...
There are some 770,000 children with disabilities in the UK who, up until now, have had few role models in literature. A recent survey of families with disabled children at nursery revealed the...
This surely must be the best of times for early years and I am delighted to have just been appointed as national director for the National Strategies, Early Years.
I opened my pre-school five years ago with my business partner.