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Survey highlights 'sector-wide' early years workforce crisis

Thursday, December 2, 2021

| Nursery World

More than eight in ten early years settings are struggling to recruit staff and half of them are having to turn away new parents because of staff shortages, sector research suggests.

Sector concerned DfE mentoring programme will put added pressure on nurseries

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Wednesday, December 1, 2021

| Nursery World

The DfE’s new mentoring programme has faced criticism from the sector, with some raising concern it will take much needed senior staff away from settings already experiencing a recruitment crisis.

Outdoor CPD: Part 12 - On a mission to mentor

Features

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

| Nursery World

In the last part of this series, Gabriella Jozwiak considers the importance of coaching and mentoring staff and asks how settings can best implement these activities

Qualification Levels: Part 6 - New horizons

Features

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

| Nursery World

What are the options and requirements for early years degree students? Charlotte Goddard reports

Staff health & Wellbeing: Part 8 - Covid’s legacy

Features

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

| Nursery World

How can employers ensure staff’s health and wellbeing needs are met post-pandemic, asks Charlotte Goddard

Outdoor CPD: Part 11 - Be an ambassador

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Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| Nursery World

Action research projects in the outdoors can boost staff’s knowledge and enthusiasm for outside activities. Gabriella Jozwiak on being an advocate for learning outdoors

New early years leadership qualification available from Autumn 2022

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Friday, October 15, 2021

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has launched a new early years leadership qualification for Level 3 qualified and above practitioners working in private, voluntary and independent settings.

Qualification Levels: Part 4 - Into the light

Features

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

| Nursery World

Continuing our series, Charlotte Goddard considers the value of Level 4 qualifications and the courses on offer

Outdoor CPD: Part 10 - How to be inspired

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Tuesday, September 28, 2021

| Nursery World

Networks through which practitioners share their experiences and knowledge with others can give training and learning a practical dimension, finds Gabriella Jozwiak

Training: Students face problems with lack of hours spent in nursery placements

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Thursday, September 2, 2021

| Nursery World

Awarding bodies have adapted qualifications to help students whose placement time has been reduced by the pandemic.

Staff Health & Wellbeing: Part 5 - It’s personal

Features

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

| Nursery World

How can settings support staff experiencing relationship, money or parenthood problems, asks Charlotte Goddard

Qualification Levels: Part 3 - In demand

Features

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

| Nursery World

Increasing numbers of staff and students are reportedly shunning Level 3. Charlotte Goddard reports

Outdoor CPD: Part 9 - Why do more?

Features

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

| Nursery World

Specific outdoor teaching qualifications are not necessary for early years practitioners to work with children outside, but they are very valuable, finds Gabriella Jozwiak

Outdoor CPD: Part 8 - Out and about

Features

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

| Nursery World

Engaging with the local community can support outdoor learning, but what are the best ways that practitioners can prepare for this? By Gabriella Jozwiak

Staff Health & Wellbeing: Part 4 - Body and soul

Features

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

| Nursery World

With half of early years staff saying work has made them ill, Charlotte Goddard looks at employee health protection

Qualification Levels: Part 2 - Stepping up

Features

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

| Nursery World

The new Level 2 Early Years Practitioner apprenticeship has been met positively, finds Charlotte Goddard

Survey highlights impact of Covid self-isolation policy on nursery closures

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

| Nursery World

A quarter of nurseries (25 per cent) in England, Wales and Scotland had to partially close between March and May, according to a survey by the National Day Nurseries Association and the Education Policy Institute.