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Maintained nursery schools: the eye of the funding crisis storm

Friday, June 14, 2019

| Nursery World

?A very worrying report out this week from the Early Years Alliance indicates many childcare providers in the private, voluntary and independent (PVI) sector find themselves in a funding crisis.

Tax-free childcare - unfair all round

Opinion

Thursday, March 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Alison Garnham, Chief Executive, Child Poverty Action Group

The ''Tesco-isation'' of England's Early Years: The Choices before Us

Opinion

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

| Nursery World

Those who lived through the bleak days of the Woodhead/Blunkett Education regime of the late 1990s scarcely imagined that early-years policy-making could be any more Dark-Aged, but in this respect the current Wilshaw/Gove regime is breaking all previous records.

Dawning realisation

Opinion

Monday, October 16, 2017

| Nursery World

Our columnist reflects on what party conference season means for the early years

Great news for schools…disappointment for PVIs

Opinion

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government's £30m school nurseries fund may be great news for schools, but why should private and voluntary nurseries be seen as second-class citizens?

‘Give SENCOs the time and resources they need to do their job’

Opinion

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

| Nursery World

With more pupils requiring SEND support in our primary schools, it is imperative that investment into the SENCO workforce is stepped up, says Professor Adam Boddison, at special educational needs and disability charity, Nasen.

Government must acknowledge 'vital role' of play therapy in Covid recovery

Opinion

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

| Nursery World

One of the key issues as we try to learn lessons from the pandemic is how to best support the mental health and wellbeing of children, says Dr Lisa Cameron

The greatest threat to nurseries is Government underfunding, not 'risky, financial operating models'

Opinion

Thursday, January 27, 2022

| Nursery World

Responding to a UCL report that suggests the nursery sector is at risk of collapse due to private nursery groups' high levels of debt, Courteney Donaldson of Christie & Co says 'chronic' Government underfunding is often the reason for financial losses and setting closures.

‘The three things parents have told us about parenting classes’

Opinion

Thursday, May 26, 2022

| Nursery World

How can parenting programmes be made appealing and accessible to all parents as part of the Government's Family Hubs drive? Matt Buttery explores the challenges and solutions.

How the Building on Success training programme has helped me navigate change

Opinion

Friday, June 17, 2022

| Nursery World

The Government’s Early Years Professional Development Programme was launched in 2019 to improve the quality of all children’s outcomes. Pre-school manager Hayley Woods explains how its phase two programme, delivered by the Education Development Trust, is helping her meet new challenges.

Will failed Montessori school take the advice it badly needs?

Opinion

Monday, July 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Montessori Centre International's Barbara Isaacs explains why she is so frustrated by the failure of the first state-funded primary to adopt a whole-school Montessori approach

Public we win, Public you lose

Opinion

Friday, March 7, 2014

| Nursery World

The Early Years Educator entry criteria are yet another example of a policy that has been rushed out without any attempt at joined up thinking, says Ross Midgley.

Early Childhood Education and Care: commodity or pedagogy?

Opinion

Friday, September 6, 2013

| Nursery World

Young children need policy-making that transforms early years education and care, argue Pat Tomlinson and Chelle Davison

Thank you, dear ministers, for politically uniting our sector

Opinion

Monday, September 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Richard House traces the roots of the new 'Too Much Too Soon' campaign

The time is right for a Royal College for Early Childhood

Opinion

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

| Nursery World

Eunice Lumsden, head of Early Years at University of Northampton, argues that professionalising the workforce means adopting standards akin to those in professions such as social work

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