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It's been quite a week, with the Children's Workforce Strategy consultation finally being unleashed, along with the Ofsted consultation on further changes to early years inspections (see News). Oh,...
After a year of relatively little activity in terms of nursery group acquisitions and mergers, 2006 has finished with a definite bang - witness the 70m sale of Busy Bees to the Australian giant ABC...
* Children are portrayed as victims in nearly one in three news stories, claims a global study of newspaper coverage. The study, conducted in 24 countries by the World Association of Newspapers, found...
Ofsted is being urged to temporarily suspend routine early years inspections in light of the ongoing coronavirus spread.
The Labour party has promised to extend the free entitlement for three- and four-year-olds from 15 to 25 hours.
A few years ago it would have been hard to imagine a Labour Party conference where the Prime Minister, the Chancellor and the education secretary all made childcare a major theme of their speeches....
Some interesting issues are raised by the guidance on developing children's centres which has just been published by the Sure Start unit (see News, page 4). Not least is the expectation that more than...
The countdown to the next election is truly under way - and childcare is right at the top of the policy agenda (see News, page 4, and Beatrix Campbell, page 9). Last week saw unprecedented activity...
(Photograph) - Damon Britton, otherwise known as Dom in the TV series 'Byker Grove', plants a flower with four-year-old Oliver Thompson at the Riverside Centre Nursery in North Shields, Tyneside,...
Unease is growing over some of the proposals in the Childcare Bill, with early years and childcare professionals raising their voices at several recent events (see News, page 4). There has been such a...