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Alison Featherbe: 'Lessons from past safeguarding cases have driven the need for clarity'

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

| Nursery World

Early years expert Alison Featherbe delves deeper into the DfE's plans to change the safeguarding requirements in the EYFS.

Action needed to recruit and retain early years teachers

Opinion

Thursday, April 7, 2016

| Nursery World

The Government needs to end disparity between EYTS and QTS if we’re to recruit more graduates into early years settings, says Deborah Harris, senior lecturer in Early Childhood Education and Care at Newman University

Brexit – does it matter for early years?

Opinion

Monday, June 27, 2016

| Nursery World

Liz Bayram looks at what leaving the EU will mean for the sector.

No clear route to tackle obesity

Opinion

Friday, August 19, 2016

| Nursery World

Linda Cregan, chief executive of Children's Food Trust, says the Childhood Obesity Plan is a missed opportunity for the UK to lead the way

Caroline Dinenage: ‘I am ready to roll up my sleeves’

Opinion

Monday, September 19, 2016

| Nursery World

The Government is committed to quality and affordable childcare, says its head of early years

Nursery teachers are not the only answer to closing the gap

Opinion

Friday, November 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Sue Martin, professor of early childhood education in Toronto, says that Save the Children's call for more nursery teachers is missing the mark

'Big investment required to make affordable childcare a reality'

Opinion

Thursday, July 20, 2017

| Nursery World

If Ireland's delayed Affordable Childcare scheme is to become a reality, government must be willing to invest more now and into the future, says Teresa Heeney.

Making a better offer

Opinion

Monday, July 24, 2017

| Nursery World

Tracy Brabin, the newly appointed shadow early years minister and MP for Batley and Spen, says it's clear change is needed in the sector

My doubts on 30 hours

Opinion

Monday, August 21, 2017

| Nursery World

The eagerly awaited Evaluation of Early Implementation of 30 Hours Free Childcare was published in July.

Is financialisation putting childcare provision in England at risk?

Opinion

Thursday, January 27, 2022

| Nursery World

Antonia Simon, associate professor at UCL Social Research Institute, warns that the nursery sector is at risk of following in the footsteps of adult social care with a 'spectacular collapse' due to the high levels of debt at many large private childcare operators which are buying nurseries.

Why cuts won't strengthen children's centre provision

Opinion

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

| Nursery World

Natalie Merritt calls on her council to build on quality services, not throw them away

A competent system?

Opinion

Monday, April 6, 2015

| Nursery World

Mathias Urban argues that caring for nursery age children is a public good and a public responsibility, and that early childhood education is about how we as a society imagine our future.

The parent trap

Opinion

Monday, February 5, 2018

| Nursery World

We need a shift in the mindset of employers in the UK, so that flexible working is seen as the norm, not the exception, argues Sarah Jackson

Ship without a rudder

Opinion

Friday, June 22, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government is ignoring the plight of the populace, which urgently needs a strategy to help it, says Michael Pettavel

'The link between the reforms and the roll-out of two-year-old places is not straightforward'

Opinion

Thursday, March 7, 2013

| Nursery World

What will be the impact of changes to ratios on Government plans to increase nursery places for disadvantaged two-year-olds? Ivonne Wollny of the Children and Young People Group at NatCen Social Research considers the evidence.