While sympathising with Nicola Carpenter (Letters, 31 August), and agreeing that skills gained through experience are important, I feel that raising our professional status through increased...
Linda Findon is approaching business training back to front. More than 20 years after launching her business career she is about to embark on management training. Blessed with common sense, the...
Six months on from the last Nursery Chains and uncertainty in the private sector remains. The UK's nursery groups (see League table, page 21) still feel that Government-funded initiatives are proving...
By Dr Alan Marr, a research fellow in the Centre for Educational Policy and Management at the Open University Last month I wrote of the complexities surrounding the allocation of funds to schools....
After many years of lobbying by childcare organisations, the Government's proposals to extend tax breaks for employer-supported childcare look set to make significant advances (see News, page 4). Tax...
After working as an accountant Jennifer Lewis opened her first nursery in Newham, London, with her sister 10 years ago. Now she is opening her second, the 47-place Clever Cloggs nursery, which is...
A workplace nursery run by a private provider at a hospital in Wales shut down just before Christmas, leaving parents with less than a week's notice to find alternative childcare. The nursery at Glan...
I am surely not the only reader who was disappointed when I saw the photograph of motivational wristbands marketed as 'Reward Bands' (News, 7 September). Opinions differ with regard to the use of...
In this issue of Nursery Management we bring you up to date with progress on the ten-year childcare strategy and provide essential information to help you prepare for the next wave of change,...
Nursery owners chasing bad debts might find their problems solved by a new direct debit payment system developed by Parenta, which provides websites and online services for the childcare sector. The...