Nursery Management Supplement 2023: Pursuit for quality settings leads M&A activity
The market for acquisitions has slowed due to problems in the economy and concerns over staffing,...
The market for acquisitions has slowed due to problems in the economy and concerns over staffing,...
While the economic slow down is generally posing challenges to sales and acquisitions, the nursery...
Go-ahead early years settings are coping with the sector’s workforce crisis by attracting quality...
Maintaining high-quality provision is ‘challenging but achievable’, Nicole Weinstein discovers, as...
With complex special needs in children reportedly on the rise, qualified SENCO staff have been...
Karen Hart talked to two nursery managers, a primary school deputy head and a training leader about...
From using Tapestry in new ways, to contacting parents via Zoom, and other tech innovations, Joanne...
What is the ethnic makeup of the early years workforce, and what kinds of experiences do BAME...
What does the coronavirus crisis mean for the future of the structure of the nursery sector? Joanne...
Charlotte Goddard looks at what early years settings can do to narrow the ‘attainment gap’ and...
As robots become ever more sophisticated, what future role could they play in the early years – and...
This year hundreds of thousands of children around the world have gone on ‘strike’ over the future...
More and more settings are claiming Forest School is part of their offering. But how do you ensure...
We know that 70 per cent of all poor children are in working families. So how easy is it for these...
The Characteristics of Effective Learning aren’t just central to children’s development, but are...
With high rates of stress in the early years workforce, allowing staff to have relaxing breaks away...
Hannah Crown and Katy Morton speak to the chair of the education and childcare route panel, Mary...
How one setting in Yorkshire secured more than £100,000 in funding over five years, and opened a...
The conditions governing delivery of the 30 hours are being set out in local agreements up and down...
We know the 30 hours represents a significant saving for some parents, but is this the case for all?...
In the wake of the recent spate of terrorist attacks in London and Manchester, some settings are...
The high cost of childcare for parents, and the changing world of work, are giving rise to a demand...
Poppy and Jack’s founder Sarah Bellamy, former head of digital for Guardian Media Group Radio, talks...
In light of the Grenfell Tower disaster, which claimed 72 lives in June, Meredith Jones Russell...
A well-structured staff induction programme goes a long way to helping retain employees and brings...
A project to give a taster of placements to students prior to the real thing has been ‘invaluable’,...
What should a manager do when a child who attends the setting dies? asks Jackie Musgrave
Why are some councils tackling the attainment gap in the early years between disadvantaged children...
What are schools forums and why do they matter? With funding set to take on an extra dimension from...
What next for those who won capital funding to extend their settings before September? – and for the...
The deadlock over GCSEs at Level 3 has set early years apprenticeships back years. Following the...
How do outstanding early years leaders manage change? Katy Morton speaks to our 2016 Nursery Manager...
Parents of overweight children are often in denial about the problem or claim to be simply too busy...
The way that councils are setting rates for 30 hours funding varies widely across the country. Jo...
Many nurseries are finding that filming staff with children and playing the footage to them and...
Scandinavia is famed for the quality of its early years settings. So, what is it actually like to...
Considering investing in an online learning journal? Want to know more about the pros and cons? A...
Conflicts of interest, whether real or perceived, are a hornet’s nest for nurseries and inspectors...
The food that children eat in the early years shapes their habits for life. Charlotte Goddard takes...
Children’s centres provide childminders and parents with a crucial place to meet and access...
Everyone agrees on the need for decent supervision. So why is it so hard to achieve, asks Ruth...
The pipeline feeding Level 3 childcare staff into the sector is drying up, and we have the data to...
Given the recruitment crisis, free entitlement and apprenticeship funding challenges, there is a lot...
In an austerity landscape, extensive free training is being replaced by more innovative councils...
Reflective practice can take many forms. In an extract from Quality and Leadership in the Early...
We’re all used to being told the importance of a healthy lifestyle, but can practitioners practise...
Marketing may not be top of the priorities list, but with more financial pressures on the way in the...
Settings are trying to GCSE-proof future staff via bespoke training. Charlotte Goddard investigates
Overcoming a language barrier with families who speak little English requires time and effort, but...
Childcare ratios have been a hot topic since former minister Liz Truss opened this particular...