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DfE's Early Years Bootcamp courses underway

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

| Nursery World

A 21-year-old from Liverpool has become the first person in England to complete an Early Years Bootcamp course and secure a job in a nursery.

DfE seeks views on new experience-based route qualification for early years practitioners

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Monday, April 22, 2024

| Nursery World

A consultation on plans to introduce a new experience-based route for unqualified early years practitioners to count in ratios has been launched today.

Call for next Government to prioritise 1.9m children struggling with speech and language

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Friday, March 22, 2024

| Nursery World

Speech and Language UK has launched its manifesto to draw the attention of all political parties to help the one in five children in the UK who struggle with talking and understanding words.

New organisation to address 'crisis' in playwork training

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

| Nursery World

A new education and training consortium has been launched to improve playwork education and training in England.

Apprentices the answer to coping with increased demand for 15 and 30 hour-places, says training provider

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

| Nursery World

Early years training provider Realise has committed to training more than 10,000 apprentices over the next five years to help settings address the ‘seismic’ recruitment crisis.

Tens of thousands register for DfE's early years catch-up training

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Thursday, January 25, 2024

| Nursery World

Tens of thousands of early years professionals have signed up to the DfE’s education recovery training courses, designed to improve children’s outcomes,including those that are disadvantaged.

30 hours expansion: DfE commits £100m in funding to expand provision and EYFS regulatory changes

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Friday, October 27, 2023

| Nursery World

The Government has announced £100m in capital funding for early years providers to expand their provision ahead of the 30 hours extension, along with regulatory changes to the EYFS to provide more 'flexibility for settings'.

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.

Early years maths scheme to expand nationally

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

| Nursery World

The early years ‘maths champions’ programme run by the National Day Nurseries Association is being expanded nationally with funding from the Education Endowment Foundation.

Prime minister sets out plan to combine A Levels and T Levels

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Thursday, October 5, 2023

| Nursery World

A Levels and T Levels will be combined into British Standard Qualification for 16- to -19-year-olds.

Number of graduates in nurseries 'plummeted' over last decade

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

| Nursery World

The number of graduate early years teachers in England has dropped by 77 per cent over the last nine years, finds new research.

Nursery becomes the 1000th setting to gain Millie's Mark accreditation

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Monday, September 18, 2023

| Nursery World

A Cheadle nursery has become the 1000th setting to earn the Millie’s Mark accreditation.

‘Sharp decrease’ in percentage of students completing T-Levels

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Friday, August 18, 2023

| Nursery World

Just 66 per cent of T-level students that began their qualifications in 2021 completed the qualification this year.

'Considerable work' needed to improve the effectiveness of T-Levels, says Ofsted

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Friday, July 21, 2023

| Nursery World

There remains considerable work to do to improve the quality and effectiveness of T-level courses and the TLTP, to make sure that they fulfil their potential and can be offered at scale, according to a review of the qualifications by Ofsted.

Nursery groups included in Government's top 100 apprenticeship employers rankings

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Tuesday, July 4, 2023

| Nursery World

Five nursery groups have been recognised by the Government for their ‘outstanding’ commitment to apprenticeships.

UK's first intergenerational nursery launches accredited intergenerational qualifications

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

| Nursery World

Apples and Honey Nightingale, the UK’s first intergenerational nursery, has launched a new set of CACHE-accredited qualifications to support those interested in intergenerational practice.

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.

LONG READ: Confusion over online childcare courses leading to rise in 'unsuitable' job applicants

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

| Nursery World

Settings are seeing an increase in candidates who are unaware that their qualifications are not full and relevant, which means that they are not suitable to fill roles. By Katy Morton

Wales launches ant-racist training and resources for practitioners working with babies and young children

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Friday, May 12, 2023

| Nursery World

The Welsh government has launched anti-racist professional training for the childcare, playwork and early years sector.

Take part in a survey about early years training

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Friday, April 28, 2023

| Nursery World

The Social Business Trust is asking early years providers to complete a survey into training needs.

Cross-party MPs call for a 'pause' on shake-up to post-16 qualifications

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Friday, April 28, 2023

| Nursery World

Cross-party MPs are calling on the Department for Education (DfE) to put a ‘pause’ on plans to shake-up post-16 qualifications or risk making skill shortages worse.

Childminders and early years settings offered DfE-funded training to boost language and numeracy

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Thursday, March 30, 2023

| Nursery World

More than 700 early years settings and childminders in England will be able to take part in new training projects funded by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF).

Early years community gathers at the Nursery World Show 2023

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023

| Nursery World

Returning to the Business Design Centre, the Nursery World Show 2023 hosted two days of inspiration as delegates from across the sector met under the same roof to hear from experts and exhibitors last weekend (3 and 4 February).

How to support children with multilingualism in the early years

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Thursday, January 26, 2023

| Nursery World

The benefit of embedding multilingualism into early years settings was the focus of a Nursery World webinar held in partnership with Polylino.

Nursery Management Supplement: See the bigger picture

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Monday, October 31, 2022

| Nursery World

Nursery World’s annual Nursery Management supplement is published with the November issue. Find out what’s inside.

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DfE's Early Years Bootcamp courses underway

DfE seeks views on new experience-based route qualification for early years practitioners

Call for next Government to prioritise 1.9m children struggling with speech and language

New organisation to address 'crisis' in playwork training

Apprentices the answer to coping with increased demand for 15 and 30 hour-places, says training provider

Tens of thousands register for DfE's early years catch-up training

30 hours expansion: DfE commits £100m in funding to expand provision and EYFS regulatory changes

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

Early years maths scheme to expand nationally

Prime minister sets out plan to combine A Levels and T Levels

Number of graduates in nurseries 'plummeted' over last decade

Nursery becomes the 1000th setting to gain Millie's Mark accreditation

‘Sharp decrease’ in percentage of students completing T-Levels

'Considerable work' needed to improve the effectiveness of T-Levels, says Ofsted

Nursery groups included in Government's top 100 apprenticeship employers rankings

UK's first intergenerational nursery launches accredited intergenerational qualifications

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

LONG READ: Confusion over online childcare courses leading to rise in 'unsuitable' job applicants

Wales launches ant-racist training and resources for practitioners working with babies and young children

Take part in a survey about early years training

Cross-party MPs call for a 'pause' on shake-up to post-16 qualifications

Childminders and early years settings offered DfE-funded training to boost language and numeracy

Early years community gathers at the Nursery World Show 2023

How to support children with multilingualism in the early years

Nursery Management Supplement: See the bigger picture

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