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Tributes paid to peer and anti-poverty campaigner Frank Field

Thursday, April 25, 2024

| Nursery World

Tributes have been paid by children’s charities to former Labour minister Frank Field, a veteran campaigner against poverty and social injustice.

Stockport nursery tragedy: Setting was 'badly run' and didn't adhere to ratios, court hears

News

Thursday, April 25, 2024

| Nursery World

The nursery where nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan was found unresponsive and later died after being strapped face down to a beanbag to sleep, was ‘badly run’, a jury has found.

Scottish Government told to expand funded places to help families escape poverty

News

Thursday, April 25, 2024

| Nursery World

There remains a ‘significant amount of work to be done to give children the best chance of growing up free from poverty in Scotland’, concludes a new report.

DfE's Early Years Bootcamp courses underway

News

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.

Expanded offer 'ambitious' against background of uncertainty around costs and benefits

News

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

| Nursery World

A damning report highlights how the expanded offer was rushed with dates for the rollout being set by the Government without understanding capacity, and opportunities to pilot the ‘ambitious’ policy cancelled.

Alison Featherbe: 'Lessons from past safeguarding cases have driven the need for clarity'

Opinion

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

| Nursery World

Early years expert Alison Featherbe delves deeper into the DfE's plans to change the safeguarding requirements in the EYFS.

Early years FE college tutors could be eligible for an extra £6,000 a year from September

News

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

| Nursery World

From September early years teachers in further education colleges will be offered an extra £6,000.

Stockport nursery tragedy: An 'unsafe sleeping environment' responsible for baby's death

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

| Nursery World

A jury has been told that unsafe sleep arrangements at nursery were the likely cause of nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan's death.

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

News

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.

Stockport nursery tragedy: Jury shown moment staff realised baby was not breathing

News

Monday, April 22, 2024

| Nursery World

Footage of the moment the deputy nursery manager at Tiny Toes Nursery in Cheadle Hulme realised Genevieve Meehan was not breathing has been shown to a jury.

Plans to strengthen safeguarding rules in the EYFS out for consultation

News

Monday, April 22, 2024

| Nursery World

Plans to ensure individuals working in early years settings have reference checks, and new requirements to follow up if a child is absent from nursery for a prolonged period of time, are some of the measures set out in a new early years safeguarding consultation.

Sector raises concern as survey shows most early years providers haven't increased their places

News

Monday, April 22, 2024

| Nursery World

Most early years providers have not changed the number of places they offer, despite an additional 85,000 places being needed for the full roll out of the expanded offer.

Pilot childcare scheme to run in schools this summer

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Friday, April 19, 2024

| Nursery World

Private, voluntary and independent nurseries will take part in a pilot of childcare in schools starting this summer.

Stockport nursery tragedy: Deputy manager told baby to 'stop your whingeing' and 'lost her patience with her'

News

Friday, April 19, 2024

| Nursery World

The Stockport nursery worker who is accused of killing a nine-month-old baby told her to ‘stop your whingeing’ and ‘change the record’ in the days before she died.