The United Kingdom has been ranked in 23rd place for the best country in the world to be a mother.
A programme to reverse the trend in children starting school without the skills they need to learn, is to be expanded to 80 communities across England.
Five children’s centres in West Cheshire and Chester are to close in order to save the council £162,000 a year.
Children in their first year at a South Lanarkshire primary school are getting a helping hand from older pupils thanks to a newly-launched buddy scheme. All 60 children in primary 1 at Woodside...
International links established through placing nannies have helped to spawn a new au pair agency in Scotland. Au Pair Scotland has been founded by nursery nurse Carol Robertson, who set up Anerley...
By Gwyneth Blakemore, officer-in-charge of Syston Kindergarten in Leicestershire Last year local authorities in England sent out questionnaires to grassroots groups on the then-proposed national...
Babies who are not introduced to chewy foods by the age of ten months may become fussy eaters as they grow older, according to researchers at the University of Bristol. Evidence from mothers...
Schools in England are set to offer childcare, healthcare and family support as part of the Westminster government's Pounds 52m extended schools programme, Sure Start minister Catherine Ashton...
Plans to privatise council nurseries have been dropped by Newcastle City Council as it apologised to parents following a bureaucratic error. As Nursery World reported last week, the local authority...
Government proposals to reform the Working Families Tax Credit, which includes the childcare tax credit that helps parents on low incomes with childcare costs, were revealed last week. Paymaster...