One in five grandparents who provide childcare have given up work or cut their working hours to do so, reveals a new survey.
The Government needs to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to releasing more funds for the early years
A free online toolkit aims to support children’s mental health post-lockdown as they return to settings and schools.
Parents are being advised to make sure their children are vaccinated against measles amid concern London could see an outbreak of the virus with tens of thousands of cases.
Penny Tassoni has ideas for sharing 'A Little Brown Bear'
Far from discouraging children to speak their home languages at nursery, practitioners should actively promote it, and recognise that all children will benefit from hearing a mix of languages Children...
The UK's first Co-op nurseries are to be created with the Oxford Swindon and Gloucester Co-operative Society's plans to move into childcare. The fourth largest of the UK's ten regional co-operatives...
The Graduate Leader fund is replacing the Transformation Fund, which the DCFS said was 'severely underspent in 2006-07, with further underspending predicted in 2008-09'. But unlike the Transformation...
I am a qualified nanny and have worked as a nanny for the past 11 years. I do not want to register as a childminder, despite what the Government has said in its proposals to introduce nationally a new...
* NASUWT members have protested at Essex education authority's plan to introduce a six-term school year from this September. The teachers' union said last week that 68 per cent of teachers who...