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New consultation with parents and sector over ratios

    News
  • Monday, November 4, 2013
  • | Nursery World
The Department for Education (DfE) is consulting with the early years sector and parents on staff:child ratios, in a renewed drive to encourage providers to move to a 1:13 ratio for three- and four-year-olds.

New smacking rules omit nannies

    News
  • Tuesday, April 6, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Smacking is to be banned for all tutors and carers who work with children outside the family, including part-time educational settings, Sunday schools and madrassas, following a review.

LEYF warns 30 hours and apprentice levy to hit growth

    News
  • Monday, December 14, 2015
  • | Nursery World
One of the UK’s largest nursery groups has received £1.5m worth of investment funding to expand its business, but growth could be stalled by Government policies to increase the free entitlement to 30 hours a week and the introduction of an apprenticeship levy, the organisation’s chief executive has warned.

Hard facts of funding gap revealed

    News
  • Monday, November 17, 2014
  • | Nursery World
The true scale of the funding shortfall for childcare places in the early years sector is revealed in new research from the Pre-School Learning Alliance. Ruth Thomson takes a look at the numbers.

Think tank warns of 'nursery NEETs'

    News
  • Tuesday, March 2, 2010
  • | Nursery World
More than one in ten five-year-olds are at risk of disengaging from education when they start school, according to a new report.

Out-of-school sector attacks funding cuts

    News
  • Tuesday, March 16, 2010
  • | Nursery World
The out-of-school sector has hit out at children's secretary Ed Balls after he detailed plans to cut 100m from after-school club funding, despite a Government target that all primary schools should offer extended services by September 2010 (News, 11 March).

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