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Carey Oppenheim: Changing public conversation around the importance of the early years

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

| Nursery World

Carey Oppenheim, one of eight experts advising the work of the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, says the Princess of Wales' new campaign is an 'important step' in changing the public's awareness of the importance of the first five years.

Special Report: Digital partnerships – keeping parents in the loop

Features

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

| Nursery World

Communicating virtually with parents through live updates and user-friendly apps is driving forward more meaningful partnerships with parents – and streamlining business practices, Nicole Weinstein discovers

EYFS Best Practice In Schools - Looking to a positive future

Features

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

| Nursery World

How are schools across England welcoming and supporting the needs of children who have fled catastrophe in their home countries? Charlotte Goddard reports

Flexible working should not be the 'preserve of those who work at a desk'

News

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

| Nursery World

Employers in every sector are being encouraged to look at ways in which they can make flexible working a possibility.

Health & Nutrition - Going hungry

Features

Thursday, April 28, 2022

| Nursery World

With food insecurity that rose during the pandemic set to continue for many families, Meredith Jones Russell reports on the crisis and asks what help is available

Nurseries donate essential items to families in Ukraine

News

Monday, February 28, 2022

| Nursery World

Early years settings are showing their support for children and families in war torn Ukraine and those who have been forced to flee the country, through fundraising and organising donations of essential items.

Best Practice: Co-Production - Meet the parents

Features

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

| Nursery World

How the A Better Start programme is improving services and outcomes for families by engaging and involving them. By Frances Lyons and Tom McCulloch

Top family-friendly bosses ensure good work-life balance - survey

News

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

| Nursery World

A new report finds that the majority of employers have continued to allow flexible working and now focus on employees’ outputs rather than number of hours worked, thanks to changing work patterns over the course of the pandemic.

Tops commits to using real nappies in all its nurseries

News

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

| Nursery World

Tops Day Nurseries has extended its real nappy scheme to four settings, with plans to use washable nappies across all sites by 2022.

Health - Taking the strain

Features

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

| Nursery World

The mental health of new fathers is rarely assessed as part of ante- or postnatal care. With dads’ depression on the rise, this needs to change, finds Meredith Jones Russell

Sector seeks 'catch-up' cash to alleviate Covid's impact

News

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

| Nursery World

Various organisations urge the Government to make more funding available to early years settings as parents and practitioners reveal concerns over lockdown’s effect on children.

How our nursery coped with the loss of a child

Features

Thursday, July 9, 2020

| Nursery World

Dr Kath Dickinson, manager of SEND to Learn Nursery in Northumberland, explains the procedures her setting followed for staff, families and children after the death of a child.

#StandUpForEarlyYears: Calling early years professionals - why parents are missing you!

Opinion

Thursday, May 7, 2020

| Nursery World

Isabel Mohan, head of content at Tiney, writes an open letter in appreciation of early years professionals as she reflects on life in lockdown with two young children

Refugee families hit by funding exclusions in coronavirus crisis

News

Thursday, April 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Refugee support groups are losing out on funding during the coronavirus pandemic, at a time when vulnerable families are particularly hard hit.

Children's screen time up by two hours a day in lockdown

News

Thursday, April 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Young children are spending an extra two hours a day in front of a screen since lockdown began, according to research from children’s reading charity BookTrust.

Coronavirus: Home learning initiatives launch for new school term

News

Monday, April 20, 2020

| Nursery World

Two initiatives aimed at supporting children while schools are closed have launched today (Monday 20 April) as term restarts after the Easter holidays.

DfE recommends parents use apps to help pre-school children learn at home

News

Friday, February 21, 2020

| Nursery World

A number of educational apps for two- to five-year-olds have received a stamp of approval from the Department for Education, to encourage parents to boost their children’s learning at home in speaking, writing and reading.

New documentary series explores the life of babies

News

Monday, February 17, 2020

| Nursery World

A new Netflix documentary series follows 15 babies during their first year of life to discover the processes behind each developmental step.

Common Conditions: Measles

Features

Monday, January 20, 2020

| Nursery World

Measles is a highly infectious viral illness. It is now uncommon in the UK due to the effectiveness of vaccination. However, since 2016, there has been a rise in cases because take-up of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine has fallen. The UK, therefore, no longer has ‘measles-free’ status.

All about… social isolation

Features

Monday, January 6, 2020

| Nursery World

Early years settings are helping to solve loneliness in their local areas by making links to isolated parents, older people, socially excluded teenagers and disadvantaged communities such as refugees. Meredith Jones Russell reports