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Nursery Management: Funding - Don’t hold back

Monday, March 16, 2020

| Nursery World

Some councils are wrongly withholding thousands of pounds in contingency funding. Jo Parkes speaks to settings who have successfully claimed it back

Keeping Tamworth Tidy

Other

Monday, March 16, 2020

| Nursery World

At Footsteps Day Nursery in Tamworth, children did a litter-pick session to learn about caring for the environment, as well as rules and boundaries.

EYFS best practice in schools - Be in touch

Features

Monday, March 16, 2020

| Nursery World

How can schools enable beneficial touching – which many see as developmentally vital – at a time of heightened anxiety about safeguarding? Charlotte Goddard reports

Coronavirus: Call for early years inspections to be put on hold

News

Friday, March 13, 2020

| Nursery World

Ofsted is being urged to temporarily suspend routine early years inspections in light of the ongoing coronavirus spread.

Free childcare entitlement 'not levelling the playing field' for disadvantaged children

News

Friday, March 13, 2020

| Nursery World

The public spending watchdog has warned that the development gap for disadvantaged children is at risk of increasing due low take-up of funded places in deprived areas and poorer quality provision.

Nursery group offers free plant-based meals to staff

News

Friday, March 13, 2020

| Nursery World

Tops Day Nurseries is providing staff with vegan or vegetarian snacks and lunches as part of efforts to protect the environment.

Using smartphones and tablets helps to develop early literacy

News

Friday, March 13, 2020

| Nursery World

An OECD study has found a link between five-year-olds’ use of digital devices and early literacy and working memory.

Budget 2020: Nurseries omitted from business rates holiday

News

Thursday, March 12, 2020

| Nursery World

Nurseries have been omitted from the moratorium on business rates announced by the Chancellor in the Budget, which will apply to small retail, hospitality and leisure businesses.

Plans for wage hike to £9.21 for 23-year-olds from next year

News

Thursday, March 12, 2020

| Nursery World

A consultation on plans to increase next year’s National Living Wage rate to £9.21 opened today.

Leaving a baby to cry has no negative effects on child development

News

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

| Nursery World

Leaving a baby to ‘cry it out’ has no adverse effects on child development and attachment, according to new research.

Cost of childcare 'punishing' for working parents

News

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

| Nursery World

Over a third of mothers who go back to work only just break even or make a financial loss due to the cost of childcare, finds new research.

Universal credit childcare rules could discriminate against women

News

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

| Nursery World

Thousands of single mothers are being forced into debt by flawed universal credit childcare rules, according to analysis by Save the Children.

Children 1st are joint top of Nursery World’s Ofsted league table

News

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

| Nursery World

The group has joined Kids Allowed at the top of the table, which ranks the 25 largest nursery groups in the country on quality, after a mistake on the Ofsted website was corrected.

Nursery owner re-launches business rates petition

News

Monday, March 9, 2020

| Nursery World

A petition calling for business rates to be scrapped for childcare providers in England has been re-launched.

MPs to debate offering 15-hour childcare from nine months

News

Monday, March 9, 2020

| Nursery World

MPs will today debate whether to extend the 15-hour childcare entitlement to working parents of children from the age of nine months.

Campaigners call for 30-hour childcare to be made universal to close disadvantage gap

News

Monday, March 9, 2020

| Nursery World

A campaign group of parents believe that the 30 hours discriminates against the most disadvantaged children, as they are ineligible for the policy.

Workforce survey: Early years sector under increasing strain

News

Friday, March 6, 2020

| Nursery World

Widespread staff shortages and retention problems in nurseries are leading to a rise in workplace stress among early years workers, according to a new report out today.

Nursery group launches men-only apprenticeships

News

Thursday, March 5, 2020

| Nursery World

London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) is launching a male-only cohort of apprenticeships, to encourage more men to work in the early years sector.

'UK in danger of failing a generation of children’, warn doctors

News

Thursday, March 5, 2020

| Nursery World

According to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health’s (RCPCH) State of Child Health 2020 report, progress on children’s health outcomes across this country has mostly stalled or reversed – something rarely seen in high-income countries.

'You don’t always have to read a story, you can make one up'

Opinion

Thursday, March 5, 2020

| Nursery World

To mark World Book Day, here are some tips to share with parents on home-learning from Dr Elizabeth Kilbey, child psychologist, and a presenter of Channel 4’s The Secret Life of 4, 5 and 6-year-olds.

Irish childcare group opens first UK nursery

News

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

| Nursery World

Irish group Tigers Childcare has opened its first nursery in the UK, with €2m of investment.

Ofsted consults on complaints process for early years settings

News

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

| Nursery World

A new Ofsted consultation is asking practitioners for their views on how Ofsted handles complaints.

Coronavirus: Nurseries not covered for 'notifiable diseases'

News

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

| Nursery World

The Government has today formally registered Covid-19 as a ‘notifiable disease’, but nurseries are still unlikely to be covered by insurance for closures.

Nurseries not covered by insurance for coronavirus closures

News

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

| Nursery World

Philippe Fraser, director of London-based Bilingual Nurseries and Les Petites Etoiles, has raised concerns about the financial viability of childcare settings if they have to close to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Early years workforce commission set up to tackle recruitment crisis

News

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

| Nursery World

Sector organisations and experts have joined forces to launch the Early Years Workforce Commission to carry out a review of the workforce challenges facing the sector and develop a workforce strategy.

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Nursery Management: Funding - Don’t hold back

Keeping Tamworth Tidy

EYFS best practice in schools - Be in touch

Coronavirus: Call for early years inspections to be put on hold

Free childcare entitlement 'not levelling the playing field' for disadvantaged children

Nursery group offers free plant-based meals to staff

Using smartphones and tablets helps to develop early literacy

Budget 2020: Nurseries omitted from business rates holiday

Plans for wage hike to £9.21 for 23-year-olds from next year

Leaving a baby to cry has no negative effects on child development

Cost of childcare 'punishing' for working parents

Universal credit childcare rules could discriminate against women

Children 1st are joint top of Nursery World’s Ofsted league table

Nursery owner re-launches business rates petition

MPs to debate offering 15-hour childcare from nine months

Campaigners call for 30-hour childcare to be made universal to close disadvantage gap

Workforce survey: Early years sector under increasing strain

Nursery group launches men-only apprenticeships

'UK in danger of failing a generation of children’, warn doctors

'You don’t always have to read a story, you can make one up'

Irish childcare group opens first UK nursery

Ofsted consults on complaints process for early years settings

Coronavirus: Nurseries not covered for 'notifiable diseases'

Nurseries not covered by insurance for coronavirus closures

Early years workforce commission set up to tackle recruitment crisis

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