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Caroline Flint, who set up the first cross-party group for childcare, and was one of 101 Labour women MPs elected 20 years ago next month, reflects on the dramatic changes to early years policy since...
Using extracts from his new book on the subject, Damien Fitzgerald argues that the Government’s approach to early years policy has substantially reduced the essential focus on quality
An ethos of mutual gain in college studying and working practice is described by Dr Cath Arnold, who leads on the MA in Integrated Provision for Families, based at the Pen Green Centre.
Nurseries which exclusively serve deprived areas may be less effective in breaking a cycle of underachievement than settings where there are children from varied backgrounds, according to a...
Everything you ever needed to know about the Government's flagship 30 hours policy
As this highly significant bill enters its final stages in Parliament, we ask Family and Childcare Trust policy and public affairs expert Adam Butler some key questions.
Did you publish Maggie Dyer's letter (15 March) just to provoke a response? Snide asides relating to the Government's policy allowing registered childminders to smack children and smoke in their...
By Clem Henricson (The Policy Press, 18.99, ISBN 9781447300533)
Policy tensions and political motives create barriers to improving childcare, says Chris Barnham.
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...