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Smacking is to be banned for all tutors and carers who work with children outside the family, including part-time educational settings, Sunday schools and madrassas, following a review.

Providers weigh up whether to leave early years sector

News

Monday, June 1, 2015

| Nursery World

As the Government looks to double the number of free childcare hours for threeand four-year-olds, a new survey reveals that providers are uncertain about their future.

Editor's view - Wales the brave

Opinion

Monday, June 1, 2015

| Nursery World

The Welsh Government deserves plaudits for its bravery in implementing the play-based Foundation Phase for threeto seven-year-olds - radical indeed compared to the way that things are progressing in England.

Editor's view - Taking up the slack

Opinion

Monday, November 30, 2015

| Nursery World

The Government's suggestion that nurseries should work at minimum ratios will not go down well.

LEYF warns 30 hours and apprentice levy to hit growth

News

Monday, December 14, 2015

| Nursery World

One of the UK’s largest nursery groups has received £1.5m worth of investment funding to expand its business, but growth could be stalled by Government policies to increase the free entitlement to 30 hours a week and the introduction of an apprenticeship levy, the organisation’s chief executive has warned.

Expansion of free early years places for two-year-olds to start in the autumn

News

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

| Nursery World

Two thousand more two-year-olds will be eligible for a free early education place from September in plans to be announced by the Deputy Prime Minister today.

Social exclusion

Opinion

Monday, October 19, 2015

| Nursery World

How can we exclude children before they've even reached the statutory age for education?, asks Sue Cowley

Council cuts 'will destroy provision' for disadvantaged children

News

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

| Nursery World

Early years settings in the London Borough of Westminster have been told they are facing immediate cuts to funding aimed at helping disadvantaged children.

Why this Government is in a mess on childcare

Opinion

Monday, November 2, 2015

| Nursery World

Lucy Powell, Labour’s shadow education secretary, promises strong action on childcare policy

Hard facts of funding gap revealed

News

Monday, November 17, 2014

| Nursery World

The true scale of the funding shortfall for childcare places in the early years sector is revealed in new research from the Pre-School Learning Alliance. Ruth Thomson takes a look at the numbers.