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Parents' debts hit providers' pockets

    News
  • Wednesday, April 7, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Childcare providers are increasingly being left with bad debts and sustainability problems because many parents are facing 'an affordability gap' and cannot pay the fees in spite of receiving tax credits. Rosemary Murphy, chief executive of the National Day Nurseries Association, said that the Government's 70 per cent maximum limit for help with childcare costs, reduced funding for the second child and none for the third, left the poorest parents 'with a significant amount of money to find each week'.

More children 'are escaping poverty'

    News
  • Wednesday, April 7, 2004
    • | Nursery World
As many as 200,000 children in the UK have been lifted out of relative income poverty in the past year, the Government claimed last week. Work and pensions secretary Andrew Smith said the number of children in absolute poverty had fallen more rapidly, with 2.1 million fewer 'growing up with their opportunities undermined by acute financial hardship'.

Management - Tip Top

    Features
  • Monday, January 11, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Ten professionals offer fresh inspiration for the new year – everything from erupting volcanoes to settling-in reviews

Millie's Mark

    Other
  • Monday, May 29, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Child’s Play Private Nursery in Ferryhill, County Durham has been awarded Millie’s Mark by the National Day Nurseries Association in collaboration with the Department for Education and Millie’s Trust.

Carers consulted about complaints

    News
  • Wednesday, April 7, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The views of early education and childcare providers are being sought by the Care Commission as part of its review of the complaints process. The move follows an internal review of the system last autumn, which included consultation with staff about how the complaints procedure was working in practice. The exercise is now being expanded to include external stakeholders with the launch last week of a consultation on a revised complaints procedure.

DoH backs use of dummy

    News
  • Thursday, August 9, 2007
    • | Nursery World
New advice to parents says that babies should be put to bed with a dummy because it could prevent cot death.

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