Nursery News Cast

Ofsted publishes 2008 Annual Performance Assessments

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:30 GMT

Ofsted today publishes the outcomes of the 2008 Annual Performance Assessments (APAs) conducted across 147 local authorities in England.

Free: Learning and growing together wallchart for Parents

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:15 GMT

The Learning and growing together wallchart is a free height chart for parents and their children to use together. The height chart contains information about fun things that parents and carers can do with their children that will help them learn and be healthy and explains how parents and carers can gain access to free early learning and care.

Hughes complaint over low Unicef ranking for England

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Children's minister Beverley Hughes has complained to Unicef after a report claimed that England was meeting only half of the organisation's minimum requirements for quality childcare.

Children details on lost USB Memory Stick

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:30 GMT

A council has launched an investigation after the private details of thousands of children were found on a memory stick. A USB stick dropped by a Leeds City Council employee was found in a car by a member of the public.

2020 workforce vision is a bit fuzzy

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:15 GMT

A turbulent year for the sector culminated this week with the publication of the long-anticipated 2020 Children and Young People's Workforce Strategy.

Every Child a Talker

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Every Child a Talker (ECAT) is designed to help create a developmentally appropriate, supportive and stimulating environment in which children can enjoy experimenting with and learning language. It can be implemented whether children are in Early Years settings, with a childminder or at home with their parents.

Ofsted to privatise early years

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:30 GMT

Ofsted is to privatise early education and childcare inspections, according to an internal document seen by CYP Now. The inspectorate wants to outsource services because its childcare inspectors feel "demotivated and undervalued".

Social and Emotional Aspects of Development: Guidance for EYFS practitioners

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:15 GMT

The Department for Children, Schools and Families has published a booklet for practitioners, focusing mainly on the younger children in the EYFS (birth-36 months), although there is much that will be of interest to practitioners working with the older children.

Tories would change EYFS and cut regulations

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Conservative Party would significantly slim down the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and remove regulations if it came into power.

Free Places for 2yr olds Scrapped

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:30 GMT

The plan to offer free nursery places for all two-year-olds has been scrapped by the Government, just two months after it was announced as part of a £1billion package to expand childcare.