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Nursery Management: Qualifications - Status quo?

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

| Nursery World

What does the history of early years policy and qualifications tell us about today’s workforce? Hannah Crown charts developments from the NNEB to T-Levels

Guide to: Childhood Obesity Strategy

Features

Monday, September 17, 2018

| Nursery World

Following criticism of its obesity strategy, the Government added a second chapter earlier this year setting out new aims and commitments. Meredith Jones Russell reports

Childcare Counsel - breaks and post-termination restrictions

Features

Monday, September 3, 2018

| Nursery World

Our resident employment lawyer Caroline Robins, principal associate at Eversheds, answers your questions

Guide to: Promoting the Early Years

Features

Monday, August 20, 2018

| Nursery World

What resources and initiatives are out there to help the sector promote itself to potential new and future recruits? Hannah Crown reports

Guide to: T-levels

Features

Monday, July 23, 2018

| Nursery World

Will the new T-levels be a bed of roses or a bumpy road? Hannah Crown gives the lowdown on the new vocational programme for Education and Childcare

Guide to: Tax-free Childcare Vs Vouchers

Features

Monday, July 23, 2018

| Nursery World

As part of a new series of handy guides on management issues, we look at Tax-Free Childcare and compare the system to childcare vouchers

Fears that early years T-Level will not give licence to practice

News

Monday, June 11, 2018

| Nursery World

Awarding bodies and sector organisations have raised concerns that the early years T-Level won’t equip students with a licence to practice.

Workforce Strategy, Part 11: Final Roundup - Stop or go?

Features

Monday, June 11, 2018

| Nursery World

More than a year after its launch, has the Workforce Strategy delivered? Charlotte Goddard provides a systematic analysis of each section

Your guide to the latest early years documents

Features

Friday, June 1, 2018

| Nursery World

Are you using the most recent Government documents giving advice on early years and safeguarding legislation?

DfE to consult on home schooling and out-of-school settings

News

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

| Nursery World

A consultation on improving standards of home schooling has been launched by the Department for Education (DfE), while it also plans to consult on a voluntary code for out-of-school 'education' settings.

Major nursery groups reveal gender pay gap

News

Monday, April 16, 2018

| Nursery World

Nursery groups with more than 250 employees have reported on their gender pay gaps, with women ahead in some companies, but men still paid more in others despite the female-dominated nature of the early years sector.

Minimum wage rates to increase from 1 April

News

Friday, March 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The national minimum wage rates are set to increase again from 1 April, rising to £7.83 an hour for the highest paid.

Spring statement: apprenticeships, T-levels and business rates

News

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

| Nursery World

In the spring statement, Chancellor Philip Hammond said that he was announcing £80m to support small businesses in engaging apprenticeships.

Opposition parties win childcare voucher extension

News

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

| Nursery World

The scrapping of childcare vouchers has been delayed, after Labour forced a vote on the issue in the House of Commons yesterday.

Universal Credit: Part 2 - Credit where it’s due

Features

Monday, February 19, 2018

| Nursery World

In the second part of this series, David Finch explains how Universal Credit differs from the tax credits system it is replacing, and how families may be affected