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Editor’s view - Graduate grudges

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 22, 2018
    • | Nursery World
With the continuing rows in various parts of the early years sector about Ofsted’s Bold Beginnings report and the 30 hours funded childcare programme, some aspects of workforce reform have taken a back seat.

Editor’s view - The policy gap

    Opinion
  • Monday, December 11, 2017
    • | Nursery World
In these weeks running up to Christmas, the problems of inequality, disadvantage and lack of social mobility in our country come into ever-sharper focus, as both our regular columnists highlight.

Editor’s view - The cupboard was bare

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 27, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The Budget has come and gone. To no-one’s great surprise, despite several heartfelt and well-argued open letters from sector representatives about early years funding, the Chancellor had nothing to say or offer on this front.

Editor’s view - Good relations

    Opinion
  • Friday, November 10, 2017
    • | Nursery World
It is perhaps a measure of how far the early years sector’s relationship with Ofsted has improved that after chief inspector Amanda Spielman’s speech at our Business Summit last week, there was no forest of hands wanting to complain about inadequate inspections and inspectors.

Editor’s view - Hitting out

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 30, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The debate over the rights and wrongs of smacking children has raged on for decades, yet very little progress has been made in stopping this unacceptable practice.

Editor’s view - The full picture

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 16, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Professor Cathy Nutbrown’s review of early years and childcare qualfications in 2012 found 445 available, of which 223 were deemed full and relevant.

Editor’s view - Primary concerns

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 2, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The title of the government consultation ‘Primary Assessment in England’ might have led the early years sector to conclude it didn’t much involve them.

Editor’s view - Beyond 30 hours!

    Opinion
  • Friday, August 18, 2017
    • | Nursery World
It’s very difficult to switch attention away from the start of the 30 hours implementation – understandably given its likely impact on the early years sector.

Editor’s view - Summer stock-taking

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 7, 2017
    • | Nursery World
It is August, and traditionally a time when you get a chance to tidy the shelves, sort out the filing and take stock of your work before the autumn frenzy descends.

Editor’s view - Reporting back

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 24, 2017
    • | Nursery World
With the election over and the Department for Education team in place, we’ve seen several major reports emerge boldly into the public domain.

Editor’s view - Food for life

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 12, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Healthy eating is a theme that runs through this issue of Nursery World, and this will continue to be of prime importance whatever the colour and shape of the Government that will be in place by the time you read this.

Editor’s view - Tech high and lows

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 15, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Technology is a mixed blessing in many ways, but when it comes to launching major new digital public services it seems that glitches and frustrations are definitely par for the course.

Editor’s view - For the future

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 3, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Whatever the uncertainties of the future for nurseries heralded by rising costs, static funding and the implementation of the 30 hours programme, the central task of early years settings – preparing young children for their future – remains.

Editor’s view - Extra stress

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 20, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The Government has previously said in documents about the 30 hours and the early years national funding formula that providers can charge parents for ‘additional services’.

Editor’s view - Divided we fall

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 6, 2017
    • | Nursery World
There are lots of aspects of the current set of challenges for the early years sector that are of great concern, as many of our recent stories and features online and in the magazine illustrate.

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