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Children's centres: Where next?

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

| Nursery World

Lisa Harker, head of Strategy Unit, NSPCC, calls for children's centres services to be refocused on supporting children under the age of two

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.

Tax-free childcare - unfair all round

Opinion

Thursday, March 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Alison Garnham, Chief Executive, Child Poverty Action Group

Government must acknowledge 'vital role' of play therapy in Covid recovery

Opinion

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

| Nursery World

One of the key issues as we try to learn lessons from the pandemic is how to best support the mental health and wellbeing of children, says Dr Lisa Cameron

A mixed start for the new childcare minister

Opinion

Friday, September 19, 2014

| Nursery World

Dr Richard House, a co-founder of Early Childhood Action, shares his first impressions

Society's technological drive at odds with child development

Opinion

Friday, September 8, 2017

| Nursery World

Cuts to services are not the only reason children are not 'ready' for school, says Sally Goddard-Blythe.

All in all ... the 'benefits cap'

Opinion

Friday, May 17, 2013

| Nursery World

Dr Katherine Runswick-Cole looks at the likely impact of the benefits cap

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

Rebekah Jackson Reece: Extra Government funding to increase supply of wrap-around care 'will do nothing to support a sector already in crisis'

Opinion

Thursday, March 16, 2023

| Nursery World

The director of the Out-of-School Alliance (OOSA) has welcomed the additional Government investment in wrap-around care, announced within the Budget, with 'caution'.

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

Anne Longfield: Why the Government's commitment to Family Hubs is 'not enough'

Opinion

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

| Nursery World

The chair of the Young Lives Commission and former Children's Commissioner for England, says the Government's ambition for Family Hubs is 'nowhere near the scale of what families need', nor is it enough to replace 'hundreds of closed Sure Start centres'.

A fairer deal is needed

Opinion

Monday, July 28, 2014

| Nursery World

Earlier this year, Birmingham City Council announced that from April 2015 childcare providers in the city would only be funded to deliver the free entitlement if they paid the Living Wage of £7.65 an hour. The uproar in the sector was well reported by Nursery World and is easy to understand.