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LONG READ: Sector is split over decision to provide funded twos places

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| Nursery World

Two surveys show that many settings will not be able to offer parents places for the extended entitlements, as the start of the roll-out of the expanded policy nears. By Catherine Gaunt

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

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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.

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

Interview – Wendy Ratcliff, Ofsted's Principal Officer for Early Education

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Friday, November 24, 2023

| Nursery World

Catherine Gaunt spoke to Wendy Ratcliff, Ofsted's Principal Officer for Early Education, about the findings of Ofsted's Annual Report for 2022-23.

LONG READ: What funding and regulatory changes mean for the sector

News

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

| Nursery World

Katy Morton analyses changes coming down the track and garners opinion on the wider implications.

Research Nurseries: On a learning curve

Features

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

| Nursery World

In the last of the series, researcher Gemma Goldenberg discusses what research- informed practice means to different settings and unpicks some of the differing views about what works

Latest figures show number of disadvantaged two-year-olds taking up 15 hours lowest ever

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Friday, July 7, 2023

| Nursery World

The number of disadvantaged two-year-olds registered for 15-hour childcare is now the lowest ever, according to the latest official statistics, while the number of children of working parents registered for the 30-hour entitlement is at its highest.

Early years staff under stress due to unmanageable workload – survey

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

| Nursery World

Early years educators are struggling with their workload, with over a fifth reporting that they ‘frequently’ have ‘too much’ on.

Proposed Government changes to childcare qualifications spark concern about 'de-professionalisation' of the workforce'

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

| Nursery World

Early years organisations, experts and consultants are worried that Government proposals on changes to early years qualifications, outlined in a consultation launched today, could lower standards and ultimately, the quality of care.

Trade union calls on Government to address early years workforce challenges

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

| Nursery World

Community, which represents early years professionals, is launching its Early Years Charter, which sets out the 'key' workforce changes it would like the Government to implement.

Budget 2023: Big funding questions hang over Chancellor's 'landmark' childcare reform pledge

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

| Nursery World

Sector leaders and experts have welcomed the Chancellor’s focus on childcare reform in the Budget, but warn the funding promised will not solve the current crisis, and there is no detail as yet on funding rates for providers of the expanded 30-hour offer.

Budget 2023: Nurseries warn they 'need to see the sums' as Government plans major expansion in childcare for one- and two-year-olds

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

| Nursery World

Sector organisations have welcomed Treasury plans to increase funding for childcare by £4 billion, but experts have warned ‘the devil is in the detail’, amid nurseries closing due to the ongoing underfunding and recruitment crisis.

Maggie Bolger: 'Why a £500 sign-on bonus for childcare workers won't work'

Opinion

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

| Nursery World

The childcare sector is in crisis. The issues are complex. We need realistic solutions, and we need them soon, says nursery owner and entrepreneur Maggie Bolger

Early years action group to stage protest in March

News

Monday, January 16, 2023

| Nursery World

A protest has been organised for the early years sector in London in two months' time.

Report suggests relaxing ratios and giving childminder agencies greater powers will ease childcare costs

News

Friday, August 12, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report looking at ways to reform childcare recommends staff: child ratios be relaxed further than the proposed 1:5 in 'good' and 'outstanding' nurseries and suggests childminder agencies take on a larger role within the sector.

Early years is ‘an invisible workforce’ - report

News

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

| Nursery World

More than nine in ten workers in the early years sector feel they are not respected by Government and policymakers, while seven in ten feel a lack of respect from the public, according to a survey from early childhood platform Famly.

Level 3 EYE qualification to be reviewed this summer

News

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

| Nursery World

The Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification (EYE) will be reviewed by the national education awarding organisation NCFE in the summer.

New DfE research emphasises the impact of Covid on early years sector

News

Friday, April 29, 2022

| Nursery World

Three new reports from the Department for Education outline how childcare settings across the country have been impacted by the pandemic, staffing challenges and sustained Government underfunding.

Rise in number of teachers planning to leave the job

News

Monday, April 11, 2022

| Nursery World

High workload and workplace stress are significant factors leading to 44 per cent of teachers to say they plan to leave teaching in the next five years.

EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus forced childcare providers to take dire action, study shows

News

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

| Nursery World

Covid has seen professionals cut staff, use reserves and even sell belongings, but researchers say an early years education and care-led recovery is now vital, as Katy Morton reports

Change to Covid rules on testing and isolation provokes mixed response among nurseries and childminders

News

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

| Nursery World

Early years settings have questioned the Government’s decision to scrap twice-weekly testing in early years settings and have raised concerns about plans to end self-isolation for positive Covid cases.

Nurseries at risk of collapse due to 'large corporate takeovers'

News

Thursday, January 27, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report warns the nursery sector is ‘at threat of being damaged’ as smaller settings get taken over by large corporate companies that are ‘profit-focused’.

Ofsted U-turn on controversial early years employee health guidance

News

Thursday, January 13, 2022

| Nursery World

In a swift turnaround, Ofsted has withdrawn its document requiring early years providers to report 'significant events and changes to health’ in employees and volunteers, less than 24 hours after publishing it, and says it will ‘review’ the guidance.

NDNA to collect data on number of nursery staff with Covid

News

Monday, January 10, 2022

| Nursery World

Nurseries across England, Scotland and Wales are being encouraged to fill in a survey designed to find out the proportion of staff and children who are absent due to Covid.

Progress stalled in achieving a degree-led workforce, figures suggest

News

Friday, December 10, 2021

| Nursery World

New data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows the percentage of practitioners with degrees working in nurseries has risen marginally since the same research in 2019.

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LONG READ: Sector is split over decision to provide funded twos places

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

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

Interview – Wendy Ratcliff, Ofsted's Principal Officer for Early Education

LONG READ: What funding and regulatory changes mean for the sector

Research Nurseries: On a learning curve

Latest figures show number of disadvantaged two-year-olds taking up 15 hours lowest ever

Early years staff under stress due to unmanageable workload – survey

Proposed Government changes to childcare qualifications spark concern about 'de-professionalisation' of the workforce'

Trade union calls on Government to address early years workforce challenges

Budget 2023: Big funding questions hang over Chancellor's 'landmark' childcare reform pledge

Budget 2023: Nurseries warn they 'need to see the sums' as Government plans major expansion in childcare for one- and two-year-olds

Maggie Bolger: 'Why a £500 sign-on bonus for childcare workers won't work'

Early years action group to stage protest in March

Report suggests relaxing ratios and giving childminder agencies greater powers will ease childcare costs

Early years is ‘an invisible workforce’ - report

Level 3 EYE qualification to be reviewed this summer

New DfE research emphasises the impact of Covid on early years sector

Rise in number of teachers planning to leave the job

EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus forced childcare providers to take dire action, study shows

Change to Covid rules on testing and isolation provokes mixed response among nurseries and childminders

Nurseries at risk of collapse due to 'large corporate takeovers'

Ofsted U-turn on controversial early years employee health guidance

NDNA to collect data on number of nursery staff with Covid

Progress stalled in achieving a degree-led workforce, figures suggest

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