In each edition of Nursery Management Today (NMT), we cover:

• Meet the Manager Meet the CEO: Chunky, in-depth interviews with the leaders in the sector, telling their stories, and showcasing the wide range of approaches to early years education.
• Politics and Policy: Childcare policy is in the new government’s sights. NMT keeps you informed about the policy developments and political trends you need to know to compete.
• Property: From the key considerations when buying a nursery to advice on facilities and location, NMT grills and shares the advice of experts in the early years property sector.
• Finance and funding: Always in the spotlight, how to fund your venture, and be paid when it is up and running is a constant theme in NMT.
• Business growth: NMT highlights winning strategies from successful businesses – and talks to the people at the helm making them work.
• Market analysis: Drivers, growth, prices, multiples and more – everything you need to know about the state of the market, and where it is going.
• Legal and HR issues: Essential guides on protecting your business – and you – from being sued and staying the right side of the law in an ever changing environment.
• Regulation and inspection: Everything you need to know about dealing with the regulator, how to prepare for inspection day, and what to do when things go wrong.
• Insurance: Research and insight into the complex but necessary requirement of insurance  – from the best options, to making a claim.
• Outdoor learning: Examples, ideas and activities to maximise the outdoor learning experience for early years children.
• Resources: The essential guide to finding the resources you need to run your business.
• Sustainability: How to run your business while supporting ecological, human, and economic health and vitality.
• Technology: Reviews and views on the latest developments in the tech world to improve the early years experience, free staff time and improve children’s wellbeing.
• Training: With the current challenges facing recruitment, training has never been more in the spotlight and nurseries are increasingly looking to support staff. NMT spotlights best practice, and options.
• Retention and recruitment: Key topics, in this order. Retention strategies which work – and recruitment solutions for when they fail.
• Managers’ round-up: A picture led diary piece on what nursery managers have been achieving to in the last two months, from fundraising to introducing new initiatives in their setting.
• News roundup: A summary of all the key news in the sector in brief.

Upcoming features include:

January/February

• Property: The freehold/leasehold dilemma, the best new build settings, refurbishment and repurposing, the importance of location, specialist design, and dealing with disrepair.

March/April

• Training: Where, when and how to train: Options for the forward-thinking business in person, online and in partnership.

May/June

• Nursery management software/tech/AI: Software, digital tools, apps, and digital transformation strategies to simplify, improve, manage, and reduce cost.

July/August

• Nutrition: The importance of nutrition for health and development, and how and where to source the best options.

September/October

• SEND: How to meet the soaring demand for children with SEND.

November/December

• Marketing/revenue funding: Marketing strategies that work, funding options.