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Childcare isn’t working

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 7, 2019
  • | Nursery World
We need an affordable and much simpler childcare support system, backed by employers, that helps all parents and carers into work

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

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

Helping kinship carers

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 2, 2017
  • | Nursery World
We’re hearing more and more about the role grandparents are playing in children’s lives, but many are also full-time carers for their children, says Lucy Peake

Early years manifesto

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 15, 2017
  • | Nursery World
In the run-up to the general election, our columnist Natalie Perera has some advice for the next Prime Minister.

Childcare policy 20 years on

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 10, 2017
  • | Nursery World
Caroline Flint, who set up the first cross-party group for childcare, and was one of 101 Labour women MPs elected 20 years ago next month, reflects on the dramatic changes to early years policy since 1997.

Low-earners’ bad deal

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 20, 2017
  • | Nursery World
Natalie Perera looks at the detail behind the Government's much-quoted £6 billion childcare spending figure

Britain needs to show compassion in 2017

    Opinion
  • Friday, January 6, 2017
  • | Nursery World
Every day, individuals, schools and companies contact Refugee Action to ask how they can volunteer, donate and campaign to improve the lives of refugees living in Britain.

To The Point - Fighting for a better future

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 10, 2015
  • | Nursery World
Over the past few months it has felt as though childcare issues have dominated the political age- nda. As welcome as this has been, the reality is that childcare has always dominated the lives of almost every working parent in this country.

'This little piggy...'

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 20, 2015
  • | Nursery World
With the election just weeks away, Professor Cathy Nutbrown urges politicians to see childcare as an essential service for the common good.

In loco parentis

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 23, 2015
  • | Nursery World
When I was young, it was the accepted norm that children were parented at home, and educated at school.

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