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Ready for school?

Official guidance is targeting the wrong goal for early years, says Ann-Marie McAuliffe on behalf of the Early Childhood Forum The Change for Children agenda, stemming from Every Child Matters (DfES...

Children at risk of sink service

By Graeme Cooke, senior policy officer, 4Children I applaud this Government for recognising the importance to society of ending child poverty and tackling the inequality at its roots. Expanding and ...

Choice or monopoly?

Gill Haynes' column (In My View, 15 September) made me feel extremely proud to be a registered childminder. But I could not help feeling a pang of sadness when reading her vision that all childminde...

More inspections

Your Special Report ('Knock knock', 8 September) concluded that the sector has already endorsed snap inspections as this would be the way to stop the appalling behaviour by staff witnessed in 'Nurse...

Learning about food

Further to Asquith nurseries' new menus (News, 15 September), we take great pride in the food our nursery offers, and a lot of thought goes into it. Children have likes and dislikes but unless they ...

Pay survey 2005

Our annual pay questionnaire reveals an eye-opening picture of the early years workforce. Mary Evans reports The headline changes in average annual salaries since the pay survey 2004, with previous ...

Qualifications Two-tier market is emerging

The survey shows just how far we are from realising the dream of a graduate-led profession, with salaries and benefits to match, although numbers at degree level have increased over the past year. O...

Career objectives

Early years practitioners are enjoying their work more this year despite the drawbacks of low pay, long hours and poor status. In last year's survey, 7 per cent said they wanted to move out of the s...

Pros and cons of working in the childcare sector

'Very rewarding seeing children progress. The high staff turnover due to poor pay. Two are leaving to work in Asda stacking shelves because the hourly rate is higher.' Nursery assistant, aged 31-40,...

Holidays and benefits

Differentials between private and maintained sectors apply to conditions just as much as pay and conditions of service, says Maggie Koervers, operations director of Dundee-based Oranges and Lemons. ...

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