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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 physical activity in the early years is so vital

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 24, 2022
    • | Nursery World
A free course, a finalist in the Nursery World Awards 2021, aims to train early years practitioners to boost young children's physical development. Dr Jackie Musgrave of the Open University, who helped design it, explains the thinking behind it

In touch with nature

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 21, 2021
    • | Nursery World
With the RSPB’s Big Schools’ Birdwatch taking place in January and February, what are the benefits for those settings taking part?

The power of words

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 21, 2021
    • | Nursery World
Moving away from the deficit model of difference means more than enabling diversity, so that everyone feels genuinely included, says our regular columnist Michael Pettavel

Using your common sense outdoors

    Opinion
  • Monday, December 20, 2021
    • | Nursery World
Forget tricycles and plastic climbing frames, start focusing on child development and outdoors – and reap the rewards, says Helen Bilton

Feel the warm embrace of hygge

    Opinion
  • Friday, November 26, 2021
    • | Nursery World
The Danish concept of hygge encompasses a sense of wellbeing and awareness based on the simple things in life. Author Kimberly Smith explains how she discovered its value and translated it into early years practice.

Ban wet wipe plastics

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 23, 2021
    • | Nursery World
Fleur Anderson, the MP for Putney, Roehampton and Southfields is fighting to ban plastic in the 11 billion wet wipes used in the UK every year

Rethinking the system

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 23, 2021
    • | Nursery World
The problems facing the early years sector are well known but seem far from being resolved – so perhaps we need a wholesale restructure, says Sarah Mackenzie

Editor’s view - In Control

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 23, 2021
    • | Nursery World
Can the increasingly dominant nursery groups meet all families’ needs, and those of nursery staff, while remaining profitable?

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