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(Photograph) - Little Learners nursery in Catford, London, beat 15 other exhibitors to win 'best dressed stand' at the Childcare Fair in Lewisham. Co-managers and sisters Miranda and Marsha Charles...
Family and friends carers raising children are being left to fend for themselves and suffer significant levels of hardship, as local authorities fail to implement Government policy, according to a new...
The majority of local authorities do not think they will have enough places to meet demand for the expanded offer, according to new research by Coram Family and Childcare.
The DfES is consulting on draft regulations on how to set targets that local authorities will need to meet under the Childcare Act. Children's minister Beverley Hughes said, 'It is essential that we...
New NHS figures reveal the number of children with type 2 diabetes is on the rise, with 1,560 children in England now with the condition.
Local authorities in Scotland have been reminded that they are now under a duty to make a free part-time pre-school education place available for all three- and four-year-olds. Minister for education...
Making children in day nurseries wear electronic tags has been criticised as a 'gimmick' that is fuelling paranoia in parents. Tagging systems similar in design to the anti-theft tags used in clothes...
Local authorities’ role will increase under the expansion of subsidised childcare, but are they in a position to do this?
Local authorities and Primary Care Trusts have been invited to bid for a 20m, two-year pilot scheme for free school meals, unveiled by children's secretary Ed Balls and health secretary Alan Johnson.
Nearly half of councils in Scotland have yet to make a decision on the hourly rates they will pay childcare providers from next week, reveals a FOI.