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Buying an existing nursery can be a useful short cut to getting started in the daycare business, says Martin Pace. You get an immediate income stream and it may be easier to find the funds - but there...
The Early Years Directorate, a new division of Ofsted,is taking over regulation of nurseries from local authorities. Alison Mercer reports on the changes This autumn will see a radical overhaul of the...
Wraparound care is in line for further Government funding as the Department for Education and Skills prepares to evaluate five pilot programmes around the country. The DfEShas commissioned the...
Natalie Perera looks at the detail behind the Government's much-quoted £6 billion childcare spending figure
Nursery nurse members of public services union Unison in Edinburgh will vote this week in a postal ballot to decide whether or not to accept the local authority's latest pay offer or remain out on...
To register your interest in the Pre-School Learning Alliance's latest campaign, 'Feeding Young Imaginations', please call 020 7833 0991 - not the mobile numbers printed in Nursery World on page 5, 1...
A recent development has seen Jasmine naming colours spontaneously. She clearly knows pink, purple, blue (boo) and orange (noringe). Sometimes she identifies green (geen) too. She likes to build...
Ofsted's first national analysis of childcare provision since taking over its inspection and regulation in September 2001 seems to show cause for optimism about quality, with improvements being made...
Mary Garry runs Sighthill Nursery in Glasgow, a stand-alone maintained nursery school which takes 80 children in both the morning and afternoon. The nursery takes children from the families of foreign...
Local authorities will receive a share of 167m in funding designed to boost out-of-hours services offered in schools, as part of the Government's extended services subsidy.