early years

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked on raising the next generation through a nursery crisis, with local head teacher Sam Williams

Nurseries are key to children's development, but the sector is facing a protracted crisis of funding and stability. Neil asks head teacher Sam Williams how to give kids the best start.

Neil Maggs Adam Cantwell-Corn George Colwey
Neil Maggs, Adam Cantwell-Corn and George Colwey

Voices

‘Childcare costs prevent countless ambitious women from fulfilling their potential’

Anonymous

Voices

Image of Laura Williams and her child (image: Laura Williams)

When it doesn’t pay to work: how universal free childcare would help us all

Laura Williams
Laura Williams

Reports

As the childcare crisis fuels inequality for women and children, mums are demanding action

The childcare system is at breaking point both in Bristol and nationally, with mothers being forced out of the workforce as costs rise and provision shrinks.

Laura Williams
Laura Williams

Reports

Parents and staff warn of post-Covid nursery placement shortage

Alex Turner
Alex Turner
Image of Simon Holmes, head teacher at St Philips Marsh Nursery School (credit: Aphra Evans)

Reports

Bristol’s nursery schools battle to stay afloat as government proposals offer lifeline

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Scrutinising institutions

Bristol nurseries ‘are being asked to run a bankruptcy model’ during coronavirus

We talk to a nursery manager about the financial impact of coronavirus and the future of early years provision in Bristol.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers