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Survey into early years providers' costs and staffing pressures

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

| Nursery World

Early years providers are being invited to take part in a survey analysing the impact of rising costs and funding challenges on the sector.

‘Complete chaos’ for parents trying to access the extended funding for two-year-olds

News

Monday, January 15, 2024

| Nursery World

Thousands of parents are struggling to get their code to take up the extended hours and to find a setting that is offering funded places.

Government funding impacts childminders' Universal Credit payments

News

Monday, January 15, 2024

| Nursery World

Childminders claiming Universal Credit (UC) who receive funding from their local authority termly or in two lump sums, rather than monthly, are being stripped of the benefit, leaving them short of money and struggling to cover bills, finds a new report.

Nurseries' resilience 'wearing increasingly thin' warns Christie & Co in business outlook for 2024

News

Friday, January 12, 2024

| Nursery World

Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co is predicting more consolidation among nursery operators and a continued loss of capacity as a result of smaller settings closing, in market predictions for the year ahead.

Tops Day Nurseries features game meat on the menu

News

Thursday, January 11, 2024

| Nursery World

Tops nursery group has introduced wild meat to their menus to extend children’s taste buds and help protect diverse species in their natural environment.

Labour promises to 'end the scandal of children being held back by poor health' with new action plan

News

Thursday, January 11, 2024

| Nursery World

Labour has unveiled plans for a new Child Health Action Plan, with the aim of creating the ‘healthiest generation of children ever in Britain’.

Government's long-awaited Family Hubs now open to families in 75 areas

News

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

| Nursery World

The Government’s Family Hubs, first announced in 2021, are now open across 75 local authorities, while the DfE has launched a new campaign to support parents with their child's development.

Childcare provider secures six-figure funding package to buy third setting

News

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

| Nursery World

A childcare provider has saved a nursery from closure thanks to a six-figure funding package from HSBC.

Editor's View: Let’s get physical in 2024

Opinion

Monday, January 8, 2024

| Nursery World

We should all make being more physically active a New Year’s resolution for 2024

Re-Using it

Other

Monday, January 8, 2024

| Nursery World

Children at Osmotherley Pre-school in North Yorkshire marked Recycling Week (16-22 October).

Special Focus: Get started on an eco journey

Features

Monday, January 8, 2024

| Nursery World

At a time of climate crisis as well as a cost-of-living crisis, how can early years settings become sustainable, both environmentally and financially? Karen Hart offers some ideas

New Year: The sector reveals its hopes and ambitions for 2024

News

Monday, January 8, 2024

| Nursery World

Early years professionals explain what they want the sector, and their own operations, to achieve in the year ahead, against the backdrop of ongoing challenges

Careers & training: How intergenerational qualifications benefit both adults and children alike

Features

Monday, January 8, 2024

| Nursery World

How can early years staff deepen their understanding of intergenerational practice?

What research tells us: Bucharest Early Intervention Project, 2000

Features

Monday, January 8, 2024

| Nursery World

In the first of a new column on the science foundations which underpin everyday best practice, Gabriella Jozwiak looks at what a study of Romanian orphanages tells us about the effect of care environment on development

Essential Resources: Nursery World visits… Belmont Farm Nursery School

Features

Monday, January 8, 2024

| Nursery World

Nicole Weinstein visits a London day nursery on the site of a working farm and looks at the resources and learning that takes place in its Forest School