I was interested to read the Policies and Procedures article (18 January) on dealing with illness, accidents and medicines within nurseries. However, I was concerned to note that in the section...
Nikki Gray (Letters, 9 February) is right when she says that we should all stop bickering and develop a mutual respect for each other's roles. I became the manager of a nursery a few weeks after an...
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...
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...
Private childcare is set to grow exponentially over the next few years - but this will have far more to do with purely commercial factors than with Government policy, a London conference heard last...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...