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Guide to: Universal Credit changes 2018

Monday, December 10, 2018

| Nursery World

In the latest Budget, the Government has changed its plans for Universal Credit. Here’s what these announcements mean for you. By the Resolution Foundation’s Laura Gardiner

DfE keen to hear from nurseries on business costs

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Thursday, June 20, 2013

| Nursery World

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

Ofsted: The New Inspection Framework, Part 3 - How you can be an 'action practitioner'

Features

Friday, November 9, 2012

| Nursery World

Staff need to be able to demonstrate their understanding of child development in practice during inspections, says Laura Henry.

Nursery Management: Equality - Finding balance

Features

Monday, September 21, 2015

| Nursery World

A Christian nursery worker sacked for comments about homosexuality recently won a case against her employer. So are equality and discrimination mutually exclusive? Katy Morton finds out.

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.

Early years teacher standards 'ignore sector's views'

News

Monday, July 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Early years experts and academics have slammed the new Early Years Teacher standards, which were set out last week by the National College of Teaching and Leadership.

Historical View: Is childcare working?

Features

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

| Nursery World

How much childcare is available for mothers who work full-time? Pamela Calder, former chair of the Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network and who campaigned in the 70s for better access to childcare, asks whether things have improved

Apprenticeship levy could lower wages, finds think tank

News

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

| Nursery World

The new apprenticeship funding system could result in lower wages for employees, a think tank has claimed.

Victory for the early years sector over ratios

News

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

| Nursery World

The Government has bowed to fierce opposition and ditched the proposed changes to staff: child ratios for nurseries and childminders.

Guide to: Upcoming policy changes 2019

Features

Monday, August 19, 2019

| Nursery World

A swathe of new big policy documents are hitting the early years sector from September, starting with the new inspection framework. Hannah Crown has a handy summary of what is happening and when

DfE parents' survey re-ignites fears over ratio changes

News

Monday, October 28, 2013

| Nursery World

A new Department for Education survey asking parents for their opinions on staff:child ratios has raised concern among the sector that there will be a renewed push for a relaxation.

Exclusive: Concern over lack of data on nursery deaths and injuries

News

Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

No official records are kept on the number of deaths, serious injuries and accidents that occur while children are in nursery or other childcare settings, a Nursery World investigation reveals.

Special Focus: Has the Education Recovery Plan boosted the sector?

Features

Monday, October 2, 2023

| Nursery World

Jo Parkes gauges the scope and success of the Government’s Education Recovery Plan so far, investigating its priorities, which include developing children’s speech and language skills

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.

Council scraps plans for free hours funding withdrawal

News

Thursday, April 2, 2015

| Nursery World

Lancashire County Council confirmed today (2 April) that it will not be going ahead with plans that would have seen children with relatives working in the same setting losing their early education funding.

Childcare minister calls for business rate relief for nurseries

News

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

| Nursery World

Local authorities will be given a financial incentive to encourage them to offer business rate relief to nurseries.

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

Funding formula online calculator launched

News

Friday, September 9, 2016

| Nursery World

A confusion-busting online calculator is helping settings work out what rates they may be getting when the new early years national funding formula is rolled out.

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.

Ofsted's new inspection framework: Aiming for a two-way process

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Friday, July 6, 2012

| Nursery World

Susan Gregory, national director education, Ofsted, maps out the changes which will encourage providers to take stronger ownership of their inspections in the future.

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