Safeguarding: Understanding 'verbal abuse' and roads to prevention
A study on the lasting impact of ‘childhood verbal abuse’ highlights the need for all adult...
Safeguarding & Child Protection
Safeguarding in 2024 part 3: How to ensure new early years educators develop essential skills
Rachel Buckler on strategies for supporting an emerging workforce to keep the children in their care...
Safeguarding in 2024 part 2: Ensuring a person's suitability
In part two of her series, Rachel Buckler outlines how to ensure the ‘suitability’ of persons in...
Safeguarding in 2024: Identifying new priorities
In the first of a four-part series, Rachel Buckler, a trainer and consultant specialising in...
MPs call for Ofsted to end single-word inspection judgements
MPs have called for a review into Ofsted’s single-word inspection judgements for schools, such as...
Take part in our free webinar about nursery security with Almas Industries – plus survey findings
Join Nursery World for our security seminar with Almas Industries on 18 January to find out what you...
Health visitor advice: 'Make safeguarding everyone's business'
In a new series of columns penned by senior health visitors, Rachel Costis, operational manager for...
Safeguarding Part 4: Why partnership working is key to effective safeguarding
In the final part of this series, safeguarding specialist Rachel Buckler provides guidance on...
Why the Online Safety Bill must include risks to youngest children
As the Online Safety Bill goes through Parliament this year, national media headlines are focusing...
Safeguarding part 2: Recognising when a child needs help
Early years practitioners are best-placed to recognise when a vulnerable child needs help. By Rachel...
Safeguarding Part 1: Reassessing safeguarding needs
What are the competencies needed for safeguarding in today's climate? By Rachel Buckler, a trainer...
Health & Wellbeing: Combatting the rise in seasonal infections
Are children suffering a form of ‘immunity debt’ from lack of exposure to bugs during the pandemic?...
Government unveils major children’s social care reforms with £200m investment
Plans to reform England’s children’s social care system by putting families ‘at its heart’ have been...
Data breach solicitor: 'Why are there so many data breaches in the education sector?'
Richard Forrest at UK data breach solicitors, Hayes Connor, explores why the education sector is the...
UK inquiry calls for failure to report child abuse to be made an offence
Anyone who works with children who fails to report child sex abuse should be prosecuted, a major...
Petition against plans to change childcare ratios could be debated in Parliament
A petition against the relaxation of ratios by the parents of a child who died after a medical...
MPs urge education secretary to ensure further child deaths are avoided at 'failing councils'
Cross-party MPS have written to the education secretary Kit Malthouse outlining their concerns about...
Cyber crime – Gone phishing
It may surprise some, but even childcare companies can be prey to online criminals. Annette...
Vulnerable children at risk after councils forced to halve spending on early support, warn charities
A new report from a coalition of charities reveals investment in early intervention support by...
Child cruelty rise of 25 per cent in a year 'very worrying'
Child cruelty and neglect offences jumped by a quarter in a single year, reveals new data published...
Bright Horizons fined £800,000 over toddler death
Nursery group Bright Horizons has been fined £800,000 over the death of a ten-month-old boy who...
Sector outraged by new ‘insensitive’ Ofsted guidance on reporting employees’ ‘emotional issues’
The early years sector is up in arms about new Ofsted guidance that states providers must report any...
Safeguarding - Behind closed doors
With referrals to social care and concerns about children rising during the pandemic, what is the...
Business - New regime
What are the new rules and dispensations on inspection under the current restrictions? Melanie...
Vulnerable babies ‘invisible’ in the pandemic
Soaring increases in child neglect, domestic violence and perinatal mental illness have been...
Rebuilding Your Staff Team, Part 4 - Big picture
In the final part of this series, Jo Caswell covers how to support staff with safeguarding...
Visitors and Trips – Weighing the risks
Settings and families are becoming more confident about returning to pre-lockdown activities, and...
Rebuilding Your Staff Team, Part 2 – Change for good
Now is the time to encourage staff to see change as a positive process and to reflect on their...
New campaign urges people to report child abuse concerns in the home
Neighbours and workers, including delivery drivers and plumbers, are being targeted in a new...
Great Ormond Street reports dramatic rise in suspected domestic child abuse during lockdown
Ten babies presented with abusive head trauma at the specialist children’s hospital in the first...
DfE updates guidance on wider opening for early years and childcare providers
The Department for Education has updated guidance for early years and childcare providers, including...
New early years guidance for settings planning for wider opening
Childcare providers have been told by the Government to ‘use their professional judgement’ and...
Early years settings receiving contradictory Government guidance on PPE
Childcare providers are receiving contradictory guidance over the supply of personal protective...
Coronavirus: experts advise on practicalities, protection and pedagogy for wider opening of nurseries
As nursery owners in England gear up to reopen from 1 June, an online conference run by Famly, with...
Coronavirus: Group of major providers calls for delayed school start for young children
The Covid-19 response group, formed by more than 70 childcare groups and the sector membership...
Former Bright Horizons nursery worker found guilty of assaulting child
A member of staff who worked for Bright Horizons’ Fulham nursery has been convicted of assaulting a...
Scotland becomes first UK country to ban smacking
Scotland has become the first country in the UK to make smacking a criminal offence.
Vanessa George banned from Devon and Cornwall
Nursery paedophile Vanessa George, who was jailed for sexually assaulting the children in her care,...
Devon nursery under investigation by police
Jack and Jill Childcare has suspended a member of staff following an incident at the setting that is...
TV show exposes malpractice in Ireland
An undercover investigation by Irish TV channel RTÉ has exposed the mistreatment of children at a...
Ofsted: best practice guide–safeguarding - Open and honest
How can settings ensure that staff are fully trained up on safeguarding procedures? Hannah Crown...
Safeguarding - FGM: A criminal act
What is female genital mutilation and how can those who care for young children take action if they...
Vanessa George to be freed from prison
Nursery paedophile Vanessa George is to be released from prison after a parole board decided she no...
Nurseries urged to support boys affected by abuse
Early years settings are being asked to sign up to a global charter supporting boys who are the...
DfE to consult on plans for official home-school register
The Department for Education (DfE) wants to set up a home-educated register to help councils...
New resource to teach four-year-olds about online dangers
A new educational resource has been developed by the National Crime Agency (NCA) to help keep...
Bumps and bruises: what Ofsted needs
Dee Coleman, Principal Officer, Early Years, explains what Ofsted does and does not require for...
Former childminder sentenced for working illegally
An ex-childminder has received a suspended prison sentence for continuing to provide childcare after...
Feeling overwhelmed
Too many statutory requirements mean we are busy demonstrating compliance rather than getting on...
Guide to: Working Together Guidance
The Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance on multi-agency working was updated in June. So,...
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