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Famly Software Screenshot (left) is direct from Famly Website – September 2020 Struggling to decide between Famly & Connect Childcare? Both are popular Nursery Management systems which are proven to streamline your admin, improve communication with parents and generally make life easier for Nursery Managers. With a similar price and many of the same features…

No matter where we look along the education spectrum – from nurseries to universities – technology is playing an increasingly important role in the day-to-day running of the UK’s educational institutions. But, there’s a continued debate around whether tech assists or replaces the human element in the teaching world – and if EdTech can really…

There’s no doubting that the COVID-19 outbreak has been a difficult time for the Early Years (EY) sector – throwing up lots of challenges and hurdles to navigate and overcome. And with some providers having reopened their doors at the start of June, we wanted to catch up with some of the sector’s experts to…

When it comes to the number of nurseries embracing technology to help with the management of their nursery, the sector is extremely varied. While some have migrated their daily operations over to a more digitised approach, others are still pursuing the traditional way of doing things.  Following the spread of COVID-19, we’ve seen more and…

18 days into the process of re-opening, we wanted to shine a light on some of the positive steps that the sector is making and share how childcare providers across the country have got on over the last three weeks. Consistent with our approach to the previous webinar we held we ran a survey across…

In our last webinar a few weeks ago, we discussed the practicalities of reopening childcare and gained insights from some of the leading nurseries on how they were going to approach it. Now we’re over 2 weeks into the process of reopening, we wanted to understand and share how nurseries across the country are getting…

The practicalities of reopening your childcare business The results from our recent survey showed that only 13% of the 634 respondents are confident to safely open their childcare setting on June 1st. We hosted a webinar tomorrow on the practicalities of reopening your childcare business which had over 500 registrants. We discussed the findings from…

Watch back on the NMT Discussions webinar where our Chief Information Officer, John Ingham discusses the role technology plays in supporting and protecting the early years sector during COVID-19. The move to working from home for the majority of us has meant that society has to embrace technology more to keep business and communications open.…