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Leadership - How to be first-rate

Monday, July 11, 2011

| Nursery World

To improve a setting for 90 children, nursery leader Pip Otter carried out an audit, using the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales (ECERS). This revealed strengths and weaknesses.

Business Development: Merseyside nursery group raises its game

Features

Monday, September 5, 2011

| Nursery World

The owner of a small nursery group tells Karen Faux about how he is aiming to realise big plans over the next five years.

Manchester to outsource children's centres

News

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

| Nursery World

Manchester is set to axe universal children's centres services and commission the private and voluntary sector to take over its maintained daycare provision, according to the council's proposed budget for next year.

Nursery schools will have option to charge parents outside free entitlement hours

News

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

| Nursery World

Nursery schools will be able to charge parents for hours outside the free entitlement, in changes to be introduced under the Education Bill.

Nursery group chooses centres of excellence

News

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

| Nursery World

Nursery chain Busy Bees has chosen five of its settings to become 'centres of excellence' as part of a new best-practice initiative.

Early Years National Funding Formula: DfE plans major shake-up of early years funding

News

Thursday, August 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Plans to change the way that childcare for three- and four-year-olds is funded to make the system fairer for all early years providers, wherever they are in the country, have been put out for consultation today.

Nursery Food: new edition out now

Other

Monday, October 19, 2015

| Nursery World

Don't miss the latest issue of our annual Nursery Food supplement, published with Nursery World 19 October-1 November.

Kids 1st claims top spot

News

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

| Nursery World

Nursery group Kids 1st has retained its number one place in this year’s Nursery Chains quality table, with all of its inspected nurseries graded outstanding.

Nursery Management: Case Study - Brue Farm Day Nursery - Down on the farm

Features

Friday, February 19, 2010

| Nursery World

Brue Farm Day Nursery was born out of a need for accessible daycare for children living in a remote area in rural Somerset, says Katy Morton.

Principles drafted for children's centre outreach services

News

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

| Nursery World

Every children's centre outreach service could soon have to comply with a set of core principles and standards, under draft plans by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Birmingham puts council nurseries out to tender

News

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

| Nursery World

All council-run nurseries in Birmingham have been put out to tender by the council in the hope that they will be taken on by private, voluntary or social enterprise providers.

All About Children adds four nurseries, as it continues rapid expansion

News

Monday, April 29, 2019

| Nursery World

All About Children has acquired a group of four settings bringing the total number of nurseries in the group to 33.

Busy Bees acquires three nurseries in Hampshire

News

Friday, August 26, 2022

| Nursery World

Busy Bees Childcare, the largest nursery group in the UK, has bought Egg Day Nurseries, a family-owned organisation located in Andover and Winchester, which offers a total of 181 places for children.

Pole position for brave nursery owner

News

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

| Nursery World

An intrepid nursery owner has trekked to the North Pole to raise money for the Bristol Children's Hospital.

Nursery chain doubles its numbers

News

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

| Nursery World

A nursery owner is doubling the number of settings she runs in order to meet increased demand.

Nursery goes into catering

News

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

| Nursery World

A Shropshire-based nursery owner who was unhappy with the food supplied to her settings has set up her own catering business and provides meals for eight nurseries.

Children to lose free places as council stops funding nurseries

News

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

| Nursery World

Three nurseries in Scotland have been told they will no longer receive funding for the early years entitlement, meaning that parents will have to move their children elsewhere or miss out on a free place.

Early years capital grant for nurseries could be withdrawn

News

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

| Nursery World

Private and voluntary settings that have applied for funding for improvements from the early years capital grant could lose out on millions of pounds.

Nursery World Awards 15: Equipment - staff resources

Other

Sunday, September 27, 2015

| Nursery World

Winner - iConnect and ParentZone by Connect Childcare

Treetops up to no 10 in UK chains after deals

News

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

| Nursery World

Treetops Nurseries is now the tenth biggest nursery group in the country, after deals with two small chains added 500 more childcare places and seven more nurseries to the business.

Nursery manager guilty of fees theft

News

Friday, December 19, 2014

| Nursery World

A nursery manager employed by Busy Bees stole more than £14,000 in in childcare fees, a court has heard.

Fall in 2009 demand for nursery places matches rise in fees

News

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

| Nursery World

Demand for nursery places fell by 4 per cent last year, as recession hit and some families opted for informal childcare arrangements, according to Laing & Buisson's latest report on the childcare sector.

Ofsted calls for nurseries to put in more effort with self-evaluation

News

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

| Nursery World

Nurseries must work harder to achieve rigorous self-evaluation under Ofsted's current inspection regime, members of the National Day Nurseries Association were told at their annual conference last week.

Bright Horizons named in top 50 UK workplaces

News

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

| Nursery World

Bright Horizons Family Solutions has been recognised as one of the ‘UK’s Best Workplaces’ for the ninth consecutive year.

North-west nursery group sets sights on expansion

News

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

| Nursery World

Just Childcare, which operates nurseries in Manchester and Lancashire, has opened its sixth setting.

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Leadership - How to be first-rate

Business Development: Merseyside nursery group raises its game

Manchester to outsource children's centres

Nursery schools will have option to charge parents outside free entitlement hours

Nursery group chooses centres of excellence

Early Years National Funding Formula: DfE plans major shake-up of early years funding

Nursery Food: new edition out now

Kids 1st claims top spot

Nursery Management: Case Study - Brue Farm Day Nursery - Down on the farm

Principles drafted for children's centre outreach services

Birmingham puts council nurseries out to tender

All About Children adds four nurseries, as it continues rapid expansion

Busy Bees acquires three nurseries in Hampshire

Pole position for brave nursery owner

Nursery chain doubles its numbers

Nursery goes into catering

Children to lose free places as council stops funding nurseries

Early years capital grant for nurseries could be withdrawn

Nursery World Awards 15: Equipment - staff resources

Treetops up to no 10 in UK chains after deals

Nursery manager guilty of fees theft

Fall in 2009 demand for nursery places matches rise in fees

Ofsted calls for nurseries to put in more effort with self-evaluation

Bright Horizons named in top 50 UK workplaces

North-west nursery group sets sights on expansion

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