Search

Search Results

Found 42,225 results for .

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.

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

News

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

News

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.

More than 51,600 two-year-olds without a funded place

News

Friday, April 19, 2024

| Nursery World

Around 51,645 two-year-olds have yet to take up their funded place, reveal the latest Government figures.

Families impacted by two-child benefits limit ‘struggling to keep their head above water’

News

Thursday, April 18, 2024

| Nursery World

The two-child benefits cap has put families in financial hardship, reduced their opportunities to learn and impacted their mental health, finds research.

Government urged to focus on early intervention to tackle 'unprecedented' mental health challenges for children

News

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

| Nursery World

Children and young people's mental health charity Anna Freud wants the next government to adopt its plan to shift the emphasis from urgent mental health care to prevention and early intervention.

One in five schools on the ‘frontline’ of supporting families with food poverty

News

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

| Nursery World

There are now more than 4,000 food banks running in schools in England, which equates to one in every five primary and secondary schools in the country, according to new research.