The Department for Education has just published a consultation on statutory guidance for Sure Start Children's Centres. I strongly encourage all Nursery World readers to go online and give your own...
A series of complaints lodged against the BBC by a Manchester nursery and some of its staff who were secretly filmed for a TV documentary have been upheld by the media regulator Ofcom.
Have you organised a flexible learning environment where: * children can learn in varied ways, indoors and out?
Comments in the news story 'All-day school plans anger nursery group' (22 November) are typical of the private sector. Any possible threat to their future profitability is poorly shielded by their...
When the Government revealed that it is considering making it mandatory for all early years staff to be qualified to at least level 3 (Nursery World, 4 February), it caused quite a stir.
Nurseries around the UK have given 'a very positive' response to the call by one of the largest childcare providers to create a trade association for the private nursery sector. Chairman of the...
Early years providers have been left out of pocket due to an error with the Tax-Free Childcare scheme that has prevented payments from being transferred from parents’ accounts.
Last week, Nursery World featured in most of the national newspapers as they picked up on our nanny salary survey published in Professional Nanny. There was a certain amount of shock that nannies in...
The merger of the Criminal Records Bureau and the Independent Safeguarding Authority last November to form the Disclosure and Barring Service, means that since December 2012 the CRB check has been...