School support staff in South Tyneside could see their salaries reduced by as much as £5,000 a year under changes being considered by the council to their terms and conditions.
A nursery owner has uncovered a loophole in the voucher payment system, which he claims could be exploited by parents and leave nursery businesses with hundreds of pounds in childcare fees unpaid.
Denmark and Finland are more concerned about their children's personal and social development at the age of six than how literate and numerate they are, a comparative study by Ofsted has found. The...
A cross-party group of MPs has criticised the Department for Education for failing to understand and monitor the funding for the free entitlement for threeand four-year-olds.
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By June O'Sullivan, chief executive of London Early Years Foundation
The UK's school system would rank higher in international league tables if the universal entitlement to free nursery places had been set up in the 1990s, new research suggests.
Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman is telling childcare practitioners to read 'time-honoured classics' to children to help solve the problem of four-year-olds starting school unable to...
The Pre-School Learning Alliance (PLA) has filed a Freedom of Information (FOI) request with Ofsted asking for data on the number of early years settings downgraded in recent inspections.
Despite being one of the largest counties in England, Northumberland has overcome challenges to inspire a graduate-led workforce.