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GCSE requirements to be reviewed

News

Friday, July 1, 2016

| Nursery World

Sam Gyimah has promised a review of the GCSE requirements at Level 3.

Serious case reviews to be axed in child protection shakeup

News

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

| Nursery World

Serious case reviews are to be scrapped, the government has announced.

Underfunding: Chain restricts funded-only 15-hour places

News

Friday, May 27, 2016

| Nursery World

A nursery chain which has defended a ‘general extras’ charge as necessary to subsidise government-funded places has published a new policy to help get around the problem.

Multi-Agency Working: Part 3 - Big data

Features

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Data systems commonly pose big problems for providers, local authorities and health trusts alike. In the third part of our series on information sharing, Hannah Crown looks at computer-related challenges

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

Nursery Management: References - An impossible requirement?

Features

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Ofsted wants nurseries to seek staff references – but an employer was recently sued for providing a negative one. Beena Nadeem investigates how settings can weigh up the options

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.

Bringing Ofsted inspection under our direct control

Opinion

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

| Nursery World

Gill Jones, Ofsted Early Education Deputy Director explains the move to bring early years inspections in house

Multi-Agency Working: Part 2 - It’s good to share

Features

Monday, February 22, 2016

| Nursery World

Information-sharing between organisations is at the core of multi-agency working. In the second instalment of this series, Hannah Crown looks at the issues than can arise among practitioners

Outstanding nursery's 'inadequate' downgrade over mobile snaps

News

Monday, February 8, 2016

| Nursery World

A previously outstanding nursery has been downgraded to inadequate after staff photographed children on their mobiles and sent the pictures to parents.

Toddler death nursery accused of health and safety breaches over jelly choking

News

Monday, January 18, 2016

| Nursery World

The case of a nursery accused of blunders which led to a toddler choking to death on a cube of jelly will be heard at crown court.

New framework for childminder agency inspection released

News

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

| Nursery World

Childminding agencies will either be judged as ‘effective’ or ‘non-effective’ by Ofsted during their inspections, new guidance reveals.

Ofsted childcare fees set to rise

News

Friday, January 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Childcare minister Sam Gyimah has written to sector organisations to notify them of Government plans to consult on a rise to the annual Ofsted fees for childcare providers.

First glimpse of new inspections framework shows improvements for childminders

News

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

| Nursery World

Childminders have performed better than nurseries in initial results from the first two months of the new inspections framework.

Working Mum - Making the grade

Features

Sunday, November 1, 2015

| Nursery World

Inspection days are stressful for practitioners, but they can be a worry for parents too - since they have a part to play, and poor results can themselves affect quality, says Working Mum