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Business development - Quality improvement

Monday, March 9, 2015

| Nursery World

One council has increased the number of 'good' and 'outstanding' settings in its area by 44 per cent in two years. Hannah Crown reports on how they did it.

Pre-School Learning Alliance requests Ofsted data on inspection outcomes

News

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

| Nursery World

The Pre-School Learning Alliance (PLA) has filed a Freedom of Information (FOI) request with Ofsted asking for data on the number of early years settings downgraded in recent inspections.

Nursery Management: Ratios - Keeping it in proportion

Features

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Childcare ratios have been a hot topic since former minister Liz Truss opened this particular Pandora’s Box in 2013. Jo Parkes looks at what we can learn from comparable systems abroad

Ethnicity pay gap

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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government is consulting employers over plans to introduce new ethnicity pay reporting rules.

New apprenticeships funding system 'will widen training and jobs gap'

News

Monday, March 27, 2017

| Nursery World

The apprenticeship levy will worsen the North-South divide in training opportunities and jobs, a leading think-tank has warned.

Confusion as settings ‘hounded’ to pay for music licences

News

Monday, April 17, 2017

| Nursery World

Childcare providers are challenging music licensing bodies which claim they must pay to play recorded music in their settings.

Nursery Management: Business - 25 years of changes

Features

Monday, September 22, 2014

| Nursery World

Nursery owner and University of Warwick lecturer Caroline Jones has seen a raft of changes to early years legislation and inspection since she set up her first nursery at her home in 1989. Here, she provides an insight into the way early years has transformed over time.

Nursery Management: 30 Hours: Funding Rates - Number crunch

Features

Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

The way that councils are setting rates for 30 hours funding varies widely across the country. Jo Parkes assesses some big differences in approach

Employers call for clarity on Tax Free Childcare

News

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Many employers are confused about the benefits of the Government's new Tax-Free Childcare scheme and unclear about how they will be involved, new research suggests.

Sector organises meetings for 'Ofsted Big Conversation'

News

Monday, August 19, 2013

| Nursery World

The early years sector is to come together on the weekend of the 13 and 14 September to discuss how to effectively engage with Ofsted following mounting concern over inspections.

DfE keen to hear from nurseries on business costs

News

Thursday, June 20, 2013

| Nursery World

Private and voluntary nurseries are being urged to share their running costs with the Department for Education.

DfE does not possess the data used in childcare costs report

News

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Research commissioned by the Department for Education as part of its review into the cost of expanding free childcare to 30 hours is not held by the DfE, Nursery World can reveal, despite being quoted 50 times in a key report.

Nursery Management: Workforce - Rage against the machine

News

Monday, September 19, 2016

| Nursery World

The pipeline feeding Level 3 childcare staff into the sector is drying up, and we have the data to prove it. Hannah Crown speaks to a sector in crisis

Owners reeling at huge increases to business rates

News

Monday, October 17, 2016

| Nursery World

Nurseries across the country have reacted with shock and anger to huge rises in business rates due to come into effect next April.

Apprenticeship levy is a 'blunt instrument', MPs say

News

Friday, March 31, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government’s apprenticeships policies lack focus and will not close the skills gap because they fail to concentrate on the sectors and regions where training is most needed, an MPs' report warns.

Majority against higher qualified staff having to care for more children

News

Friday, February 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Eight in ten nurseries are against Government proposals to allow highly qualified staff in nurseries to look after more children, a survey by the National Day Nurseries Association suggests.

Nursery to open in former police building

News

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

| Nursery World

An office building previously owned by Greater Manchester Police will be refurbished and open as a nursery early next year.

Minimum wage rates to increase from 1 April

News

Friday, March 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The national minimum wage rates are set to increase again from 1 April, rising to £7.83 an hour for the highest paid.

Level 2 and 3 job-starters must have first-aid training

News

Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

All newly qualified Level 2 and 3 entrants to the early years workforce must have a paediatric first-aid (PFA) certificate within three months of starting work in order to be included in ratios.

Exclusive - Minister says rates and VAT changes may be considered

News

Friday, October 18, 2013

| Nursery World

Education secretary Michael Gove has mooted the possibility that changes to business rate relief and VAT for nurseries could be considered at the same time as plans being looked into for academies and free schools.

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Business development - Quality improvement

Pre-School Learning Alliance requests Ofsted data on inspection outcomes

Nursery Management: Ratios - Keeping it in proportion

Ethnicity pay gap

New apprenticeships funding system 'will widen training and jobs gap'

Confusion as settings ‘hounded’ to pay for music licences

Nursery Management: Business - 25 years of changes

Nursery Management: 30 Hours: Funding Rates - Number crunch

Employers call for clarity on Tax Free Childcare

Sector organises meetings for 'Ofsted Big Conversation'

DfE keen to hear from nurseries on business costs

DfE does not possess the data used in childcare costs report

Nursery Management: Workforce - Rage against the machine

Owners reeling at huge increases to business rates

Apprenticeship levy is a 'blunt instrument', MPs say

Majority against higher qualified staff having to care for more children

Nursery to open in former police building

Minimum wage rates to increase from 1 April

Level 2 and 3 job-starters must have first-aid training

Exclusive - Minister says rates and VAT changes may be considered

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