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Mind the drop!

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 14, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Neil Leitch, chief executive of the Pre-school Learning Alliance, calls for action to stop the decline in childminder numbers

Making early years policy work

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 20, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Our new regular columnist argues that the removal of some policies and introduction of others has led to fragmentation in the Government's early years strategy.

30 hours for whom?

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 26, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Michael Pettavel, whose nursery school is in one of the areas piloting the 30 hours, wonders who the funded hours are really for

The dangerous schoolification agenda

    Opinion
  • Thursday, December 7, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The Ofsted report Bold Beginnings reveals an ignorance of how children learn and marks another step towards the schoolification of Reception Year (YR), says early years consultant Tamsin Grimmer

Apprentice anguish

    Opinion
  • Friday, March 2, 2018
    • | Nursery World
With the number of young people starting apprenticeships down by 40 per cent, it's a challenging time for employers, says Mark Dawe

Championing childhood

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 1, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Sir Al Aynsley-Green argues that our approach to early years comes at a huge economic cost to individuals and society

Inequality persists

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 12, 2018
    • | Nursery World
A recent OECD report confirms that the UK needs to better support disadvantaged children in order to improve their prospects

‘We must do more for those who have least’

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 7, 2021
    • | Nursery World
As the latest Sutton Trust report highlights the extent to which disadvantaged children are now being locked out of early years education, Brett Wigdortz, co-founder and CEO of tiney, urges policy makers to focus on solutions.

Early years forgotten again

    Opinion
  • Friday, February 18, 2022
    • | Nursery World
Where was the early years sector in the Government's White Paper on 'Levelling-Up'? Experts question the Government's decision to overlook the sector.

More of the same

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 10, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Reinventing childcare policy will not mean more affordable childcare, says Dr Verity Campbell-Barr

We are under assault

    Opinion
  • Friday, June 28, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Ofsted's Michael Wilshaw has betrayed a fundamental ignorance of both early years and the noxious side effects of a testing culture, argues Dr Richard House

A world-class system

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 9, 2015
    • | Nursery World
We all know how important a child's first years are, but increasingly research is showing the full impact of those early experiences on our education and later lives.

Find the childcare promises

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 9, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Ahead of the general election, Liz Bayram of PACEY calls on the political parties to commit to providing high-quality childcare.

Our multilingual future

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 12, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Is Brexit a threat, a challenge or an opportunity for the future of those nurseries fostering bilingual or plurilingual education in England?

It's not 'free', it's funded!

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 14, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The Government needs to come clean to parents that 30 hours funding will force providers to charge for 'extra' services, says Neil Leitch, chief executive of Pre-school Learning Alliance

PACEY celebrates its 40th anniversary

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 27, 2017
    • | Nursery World
40 years after a group of childminders first got together to set up an organisation to support registered childminding, current chief executive Liz Bayram reflects

Feeling overwhelmed

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 12, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Too many statutory requirements mean we are busy demonstrating compliance rather than getting on with our real job

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