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Speaking with one voice

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

| Nursery World

Let's use our collective strength to talk to government about early years sector concerns, says Cheryl Hadland, founder of Tops Day Nurseries

MPs put pressure on Government to protect nursery schools

News

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

| Nursery World

A cross-party group of MPs is calling on the Government to safeguard the future of maintained nursery schools.

Nurseries in riot zones send children home

News

Monday, August 22, 2011

| Nursery World

A London nursery had its windows broken and settings all over the UK were forced to close early when rioters ran amok, breaking into shops and setting cars and buildings on fire.

Children's centres to be brought under council control

News

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

| Nursery World

Doncaster council is to take over the running of all of the borough's children's centres because of fears over future funding.

Primaries dominate first batch of free schools

News

Monday, September 5, 2011

| Nursery World

Seventeen of the 24 'free schools' which will welcome their first pupils this term are primary schools.

Parents working shifts struggle to find flexible childcare

News

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

| Nursery World

Parents working outside the typical nine to five in the capital face a struggle to find childcare to fit with their working day, new research reveals.

School provision plans see fresh wave of criticism

News

Friday, September 19, 2014

| Nursery World

Early years organisations have renewed their call for the Government to abandon its drive for more schools to offer places for two-year-olds, in light of findings from the Department for Education’s (DfE) annual survey on the state of the early years sector.

Nursery Management: Twos update - Ready to go?

Features

Monday, September 22, 2014

| Nursery World

With the 40 per cent most disadvantaged two-year-olds now eligible for funded places, Hannah Crown takes a look at how prepared both nurseries, and councils, are to deliver.

Cost of childcare pushing parents out of work, research claims

News

Thursday, January 8, 2015

| Nursery World

One in five parents paying for childcare are considering reducing their working hours or giving up work altogether due to the financial strain, a survey commissioned by 4Children reveals.

Fees to rise as ‘living wage’ hits hard

News

Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Nurseries are considering fee rises of up to seven per cent to help pay for the new ‘living wage’, according to property expert Courteney Donaldson.

DfE renews drive to set up childminder agencies

News

Friday, January 22, 2016

| Nursery World

4Children is supporting nurseries, schools and local authorities to open childminder agencies in a new push by the Department for Education to expand the scheme across England.

Pupil Premium 'should go to rural areas too'

News

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

| Nursery World

The Government's Pupil Premium for disadvantaged children should be used to help children in rural communities, a children's service campaigning group argues.

Future of state-run nursery schools ‘in doubt’ after Budget

News

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

More than 400 state-run nursery schools could ‘disappear at a stroke’ under the Government’s plan to turn all schools into academies, a leading early years specialist has warned.