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EYPP could help create 'teacher-led' settings

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government's consultation on the introduction of the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) encourages early years providers to use the funding to make their settings 'teacher-led'.

Scottish Government provides £460,000 for extra early years training

News

Friday, January 3, 2014

| Nursery World

Childcare training in Scotland is receiving a £460,000 boost from the Scottish government for post-graduate and professional development places.

Nursery Management: Recruitment - Staff wanted

Features

Monday, September 21, 2015

| Nursery World

A drop in the numbers applying for jobs, and in the quality of candidates, is leaving the sector floundering. Hannah Crown investigates.

EYPS providers miss chance to bid for new course contract

News

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

| Nursery World

More than 20 current Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) providers will be unable to bid to run the course from 2012 under the tendering process for the new three-year contract.

Do graduates and ratings really make no difference?

Opinion

Monday, March 6, 2017

| Nursery World

Following a study claiming that graduate staff and Ofsted Outstandings have little impact on children’s outcomes, a group of early years academics take issue with its methods

'Common sense' line on vetting and barring as review begins

News

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

| Nursery World

A review of the Vetting and Barring scheme, the system of checks for those working with children and vulnerable adults was launched on Friday, following Government pledges to scale it back.

Practical Management Part 3: Staff Training and CPD - Keeping one step ahead of change

Features

Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

The best training anticipates change and contributes to a nursery's continuing development. Auditing training and identifying appropriate courses should be part of the CPD cycle, say Des Forrest and Kathy Brodie.

Stress and mental health problems taking their toll on early years staff

News

Friday, June 1, 2018

| Nursery World

One in four early years workers are considering leaving the sector due to stress and mental health problems, a major survey has revealed.

DfE scraps School Direct route to EYTS

News

Friday, June 8, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government has scrapped the School Direct route to Early Years Teacher Status because it isn’t popular enough, Nursery World has learned.

Row over call to lower childcare qualfication rules in Ireland

News

Monday, October 30, 2017

| Nursery World

A campaign to relax the requirement for all childcare staff in Ireland to be qualified has been met with criticism from the sector.

Early years workforce: 'Forgotten key workers' driven out by low pay in increasingly volatile sector

News

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

| Nursery World

One in 8 childcare workers is paid less than £5 an hour and many are forced to take on second jobs to make ends meet, a report commissioned by the Government’s Social Mobility Commission has found.

Support staff pay body's fate is still uncertain

News

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

| Nursery World

The fate of the body responsible for negotiating the pay and conditions of nursery nurses and teaching assistants remains unclear after the Department for Education confirmed it was one of the quangos still under review.

Analysis: Rhetoric fails to match reality

News

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

| Nursery World

Changes to how the early years workforce can develop will impinge on the quality of provision available to young children, argues Pamela Calder.

Workforce Strategy, Part 2: Level 3 - Levelled out

Features

Monday, September 4, 2017

| Nursery World

With the number of Level 3s completing courses falling by more than half, the sector is still in the grip of a recruitment crisis. What can the Workforce Strategy do, asks Charlotte Goddard

Plans and providers unveiled for new EYP programme

News

Monday, October 17, 2011

| Nursery World

The Children's Workforce Development Council is funding a total of 7,200 places on the new Early Years Professional Status programme between 2012 and 2015, with expectations of a large additional number of self-funded candidates across the programme's lifetime.

Private nurseries fear they will go unheard in Nutbrown qualifications review

News

Monday, November 28, 2011

| Nursery World

The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has expressed concern that the views of private day nurseries may not be taken into account in the Government's review of early education and childcare qualifications.

Government abandons GCSE rules for Early Years Teachers

News

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

| Nursery World

Early Years Teachers will no longer need GCSE English and Maths at grade C and above to count in Level 3 workforce ratios, following yet another Government revision to qualification requirements.

Conference to address early years recruitment crisis

News

Friday, December 7, 2018

| Nursery World

The challenges of the early years workforce and how to overcome them will be the focus of a half-day conference next month.

Alliance joins DfE and Ofsted to tackle early years workload

News

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

| Nursery World

The Pre-school Learning Alliance has teamed up with the Department for Education and Ofsted to tackle workload pressures on early years staff.

Spring statement: apprenticeships, T-levels and business rates

News

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

| Nursery World

In the spring statement, Chancellor Philip Hammond said that he was announcing £80m to support small businesses in engaging apprenticeships.

Proposed Government changes to childcare qualifications spark concern about 'de-professionalisation' of the workforce'

News

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

| Nursery World

Early years organisations, experts and consultants are worried that Government proposals on changes to early years qualifications, outlined in a consultation launched today, could lower standards and ultimately, the quality of care.

Research Nurseries: On a learning curve

Features

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

| Nursery World

In the last of the series, researcher Gemma Goldenberg discusses what research- informed practice means to different settings and unpicks some of the differing views about what works

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

In My View - Don't let go of the EYPs

Features

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

| Nursery World

John Chowcat, general secretary of Aspect, the union for educational improvement and children's services professionals

Greening announces merger of education and skills funding

News

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

| Nursery World

The Education Funding Agency and the Skills Funding Agency are merging to create one body, the education secretary announced in Parliament today.

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