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Survey highlights impact of Covid self-isolation policy on nursery closures

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

| Nursery World

A quarter of nurseries (25 per cent) in England, Wales and Scotland had to partially close between March and May, according to a survey by the National Day Nurseries Association and the Education Policy Institute.

Early years workers blocked from local job moves

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Monday, May 18, 2015

| Nursery World

Nursery staff are finding themselves barred from applying for local jobs by employers increasingly imposing restrictive clauses in their contracts, Nursery World has learned.

Early Years Pay and Conditions Survey 2016

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Monday, October 17, 2016

| Nursery World

The latest research from Nursery World and the Pre-school Learning Alliance is in. Shannon Hawthorne, the Alliance’s press and public affairs director, and Michelle Brown, its human resources adviser, highlight the key findings

NDNA launches workforce survey

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Wednesday, January 10, 2018

| Nursery World

The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) wants to hear from childcare owners and managers about the challenges they are facing with recruitment and retention of staff.

Stress and mental health problems taking their toll on early years staff

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Friday, June 1, 2018

| Nursery World

One in four early years workers are considering leaving the sector due to stress and mental health problems, a major survey has revealed.

Recruitment and retention crisis has increased the skills gap in the early years workforce

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

| Nursery World

The early years skills gap has increased by over 2 per cent in the last five years, putting ‘immense pressure' on setting managers’ workloads and stress levels’, according to new research.

Get your tickets to our Sustainability in the Early Years conference

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Thursday, June 9, 2022

| Nursery World

There's just less than a month to go until our conference on sustainability on 13 July where delegates will hear from a top line-up of presenters about how to adopt sustainable practice and provision.

New Institute of Apprenticeships consultation launched

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Friday, January 6, 2017

| Nursery World

A consultation on the role of the new Institute of Apprenticeships (IFA) has been launched.

New sector-led project aims to overcome recruitment crisis

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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

| Nursery World

A new research project to tackle the recruitment challenges faced by the early years and childcare sector is launching next month.

Nursery World Business Summit: shadow minister's first speech in new role

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

| Nursery World

New shadow minister for children Alison McGovern MP will give her first public speech in the role at Nursery World's Business Summit tomorrow.

Bertram receives top accolade for investment in young people

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Tuesday, May 23, 2017

| Nursery World

Nursery group Bertram has been awarded the Investors in Young People gold accreditation across all its nurseries in England and Scotland.

Childbase staff share employee-ownership bonus

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Wednesday, January 24, 2018

| Nursery World

Childbase Partnership employees have started the year with an £850,000 payout.

Co-operative Childcare staff to ballot for strike action

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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

| Nursery World

Nursery staff at a Co-operative Childcare nursery are to be balloted for strike action over planned cuts to pay and conditions worth £95,000 a year.

About Early Years - Diagnosing the sector’s ills

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Monday, October 30, 2017

| Nursery World

Staff are poorly paid, settings heavily reliant on Government funding are worse off financially, and qualification levels looks to be falling, finds Ceeda’s first About Early Years survey

Functional Skills 'will be accepted' on current apprenticeship framework

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Thursday, March 30, 2017

| Nursery World

An apprenticeship body has confirmed that Functional Skills will be accepted on the current early years apprenticeship framework.

Former chair of trailblazers seeks judicial review

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Friday, April 7, 2017

| Nursery World

The former chair of the apprenticeship trailblazer group, which was stood down in February, is seeking a judicial review of the Government’s decision.

Spotlight on ... Jane Halpin and Denise Armer

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Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Position: Co-founders of Unique Kidz and Co, a charity in Lancashire which provides services for disabled children.

Year long inquiry into UK education calls for a 'significant boost' to early years funding

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report finds the education system is ‘failing’ and calls for wide scale change including reform of Ofsted, increased early years funding and measures to ‘level the playing field’ between advantaged and disadvantaged children.

NEYTCO launches new accredited professional qualification

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Friday, September 4, 2015

| Nursery World

The membership organisation for early years trainers and consultants, NEyTCO, is offering a new consulting skills programme for early years consultants who are just setting up their businesses.

Childcare apprenticeships panel has just one PVI representative

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Thursday, November 23, 2017

| Nursery World

Members of the expert panel which will be vetting new early years apprenticeships have been announced.

Early years recruitment crisis putting Government's 30 hours policy at risk

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Thursday, March 1, 2018

| Nursery World

Nurseries are losing qualified staff and the proportion of Level 3 practitioners has dropped significantly in the last two years with a fall of almost 20 per cent, a major survey by the National Day Nurseries Association claims.

PACEY launches annual sector-wide survey

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Tuesday, March 20, 2018

| Nursery World

The Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY) wants to hear from early years and childcare professionals in England and Wales for its annual sector-wide survey.

Nursery World Awards 2018 – see the results and photos

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Sunday, September 23, 2018

| Nursery World

The wonderful recipients of the Nursery World Awards 2018 were unveiled last night (22 September) in a glittering ceremony at The Brewery in London, with Greenfields Nursery School and Children’s Centre named Nursery of the Year. Find out the winners, highly commended and finalists of all our categories…

Low wages driving childcare workers into retail jobs

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Thursday, April 25, 2019

| Nursery World

Childcare wages are falling, while those in retail are rising, according to research highlighting the risk of a growing exodus from the early years workforce.

Ceeda Data: About Early Years 2 - No such thing as free?

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Monday, February 5, 2018

| Nursery World

Ceeda’s second early years sector survey shows that less than half of 30-hours places are offered free of charge, while a third of training budgets are being slashed. Here are the key figures

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Survey highlights impact of Covid self-isolation policy on nursery closures

Early years workers blocked from local job moves

Early Years Pay and Conditions Survey 2016

NDNA launches workforce survey

Stress and mental health problems taking their toll on early years staff

Recruitment and retention crisis has increased the skills gap in the early years workforce

Get your tickets to our Sustainability in the Early Years conference

New Institute of Apprenticeships consultation launched

New sector-led project aims to overcome recruitment crisis

Nursery World Business Summit: shadow minister's first speech in new role

Bertram receives top accolade for investment in young people

Childbase staff share employee-ownership bonus

Co-operative Childcare staff to ballot for strike action

About Early Years - Diagnosing the sector’s ills

Functional Skills 'will be accepted' on current apprenticeship framework

Former chair of trailblazers seeks judicial review

Spotlight on ... Jane Halpin and Denise Armer

Year long inquiry into UK education calls for a 'significant boost' to early years funding

NEYTCO launches new accredited professional qualification

Childcare apprenticeships panel has just one PVI representative

Early years recruitment crisis putting Government's 30 hours policy at risk

PACEY launches annual sector-wide survey

Nursery World Awards 2018 – see the results and photos

Low wages driving childcare workers into retail jobs

Ceeda Data: About Early Years 2 - No such thing as free?

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