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Is the end in sight for the recent boom in growth of nursery provision? A survey released last week, showing that capacity is significantly outstripping demand in private day nurseries, would seem to...
Hot on the heels of Ofsted's annual report into early years provision comes its proposed changes to the sector's inspection process (see News, page 4). These represent a fairly comprehensive revamp of...
Private and voluntary sector providers are often quoted as calling for a 'level playing field' with state-funded childcare. This week there's good news and bad news - some bits of the field appear to...
Ofsted's latest report on the early years and childcare sector paints a broadly positive picture of day-to-day operations in the sector (see News, page 6), brimming as it is with examples of good...
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We report in this issue on interesting moves in Islington, north London, where a council pilot scheme is keeping reception-age children at children's centres to complete the whole of the Foundation...
If the Government wants to play Santa Claus to the UK's working parents, it could start with the incentives to expand employer-supported childcare that chancellor Gordon Brown alluded to in his...
The recent exchange trip made by Scottish early years practitioners to the headquarters of Westminster Children's Society (News, 22 May) was funded by Glasgow City Council, we have been asked to point...
The introduction of child tagging technology in nurseries around the UK does not have quite the same sinister undertones as the use of internet cameras, but it does seem to be a gimmick at best and to...
In the face of much concern about some aspects of the draft Early Years Foundation Stage, welcome news came this week that the Department for Education and Skills is proposing to put back the...