Find out more about Wales nursery funding from Flying Start and Childcare Offer for Wales, by NDNA Cymru’s policy experts. Rising costs and stagnant funding rates are putting increasing pressure on private and voluntary nurseries in Wales as National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Cymru reveals its 2024 survey results here. You can direct parents to… Continue reading Flying Start and Childcare Offer for Wales
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1140 hours and funded early learning and childcare
Find out more about 1140 hours and funded early learning and childcare in Scotland. In Scotland all three and four-year-olds are entitled to 1140 hours of Early Learning and Childcare. Some two-year-olds from disadvantaged backgrounds receive 15 hours per week of entitlement. A pilot is currently being run in some local authorities to extend this… Continue reading 1140 hours and funded early learning and childcare
Nursery goal setting for 2024: Tips to aid success
Join Blossom Educational as they take you through all you need to know about nursery goal setting in 2024. Whether you’re thinking of starting a childcare business, expanding your current provision or want to protect against potential threats to your nursery this year, this article is for you. Structure and purpose turn wishes into goals,… Continue reading Nursery goal setting for 2024: Tips to aid success
Starting a nursery business
Opening a nursery may be a life-long ambition, a new interest, or the next step in your childcare career. But even if you have worked in childcare before, it can be a daunting experience with many areas to consider, so you need to make sure you are fully prepared for what opening a nursery will… Continue reading Starting a nursery business
Oral health in nurseries
Teaching children to care for their teeth from a young age is beneficial for their oral health. Good oral health leads to helping children to bite and chew, feel confident when they smile and supports their speech and language development. In an oral health survey carried out in 2022 across England, dental decay was already… Continue reading Oral health in nurseries
Early years factsheets
Access NDNA‘s early years factsheets for nurseries, written by childcare experts. Once purchased in our shop, you’ll receive an email with the factsheet PDF attached.
Nurseries can save time with NDNA
NDNA provides its members with over 90 pre-written policies and procedure templates, to help save nursery owners and managers time and money. Our early years experts, along with a team of employment and contract lawyers, and health and safety consultants have done the hard work, so you don’t have to! The templates are intended for… Continue reading Nurseries can save time with NDNA
Survey to analyse impacts of rising costs and funding challenges for early years sector
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) is running a survey throughout January 2024 to analyse the cost and staffing pressures that nurseries from England, Scotland and Wales are under. All three countries are in the process of preparing for or undergoing an expansion to their two-year-old childcare entitlement. Following years of soaring costs and significant increases… Continue reading Survey to analyse impacts of rising costs and funding challenges for early years sector
Nursery policies and procedures
NDNA’s nursery policies and procedures templates save you time, are legally checked and written by childcare experts. Once purchased in our shop, you’ll receive an email with the document attached.
Reducing your nursery’s carbon footprint
Looking for ways of reducing your nursery’s carbon footprint? Margaret Hosie of NDNA Cymru member Caego Day Nursery shares how they used grant funding and the nursery’s resources to improve heating and insulation and install solar panels in the fight against climate change. Caego Day Nursery was established in the Caego Village by Margaret Hosie… Continue reading Reducing your nursery’s carbon footprint
Could your nursery be the next Wales Nursery of the Year 2024?
Nominate your nursery for the NDNA Nursery Awards 2024 With only one month left until the NDNA Awards 2024 nominations close for this year, here we share the experiences of last year’s winners of the Wales Nursery of the Year 2023 Award. St Aubin Nursery, based in Roath, won the Wales Nursery of the Year… Continue reading Could your nursery be the next Wales Nursery of the Year 2024?
How does winning our Nursery of the Year award benefit your nursery?
Nominate your nursery for the NDNA Nursery Awards 2024 Our prestigious nursery awards acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across the nursery sector, highlighting the fantastic work of nurseries and practitioners in supporting over one million children and their families. There are many benefits to settings to winning one of the NDNA Nursery Awards. We heard… Continue reading How does winning our Nursery of the Year award benefit your nursery?
Early Years Sector Events
Here’s where you’ll find details of early years sector events including conferences, workshops and exhibitions for early years childcare professionals.
Birth to Five Matters: what is it?
What is Birth to Five Matters? According to Nancy Stewart – Early Years consultant, Project Lead for Birth to Five Matters – Birth to Five Matters is a tool to help early years practitioners in England bring the EYFS to life in their settings. It has been created with the sole purpose of supporting practitioners… Continue reading Birth to Five Matters: what is it?
NDNA Nursery Awards 2024: Celebrate the stars of your nursery
We are pleased to announce the launch of the NDNA Nursery Awards 2024, which are now open for entries for nurseries and NDNA networks across the UK. We like to shake things up a bit each year and 2024 will be no exception as we celebrate 25 years of NDNA becoming a charity and launch… Continue reading NDNA Nursery Awards 2024: Celebrate the stars of your nursery
Happy anniversary, NDNA!
NDNA is celebrating 25 years of being a charity and we would love our members to celebrate with us! Print out the relevant bunting template below and circulate to parents/carers or complete it as a fun activity to do within your setting with the children. Once complete, put up your bunting around the nursery, creating… Continue reading Happy anniversary, NDNA!
NDNA Announces Two New National Trustees
NDNA has announced the appointment of Susan Hill as Trustee for NDNA Scotland and Nikola Masters as Trustee for NDNA Cymru. Susan was previously on the Board of Directors of the Scottish Independent Nursery Association until it merged with NDNA in 2005. Since then, she has been actively involved as an NDNA Network Chair, playing… Continue reading NDNA Announces Two New National Trustees
NDNA Nursery Awards 2024: Spotlight on last year’s winner – Overall Nursery of the Year Award
With the NDNA Awards 2024 nominations kicking off to a great start this month, we wanted to hear from last year’s double winners of the Nursery of the Year 2023 Award Little Professors Nursery, based at Walsall College, won the Nursery of the Year Award – England Central, as well as the coveted overall Nursery… Continue reading NDNA Nursery Awards 2024: Spotlight on last year’s winner – Overall Nursery of the Year Award
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Start Life Well
Start Life Well is a complete online well-being framework and whole-setting approach that will reinforce the value of physical activity, healthy eating and emotional well-being in everything you do. A staggering one quarter of five year olds in the UK experience tooth decay and almost 1 in 4 children are already obese by the time… Continue reading Start Life Well