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The proportion of nursery staff qualified to Level 3 or above has fallen to such an extent in the last four years that it threatens the quality of provision, the National Day Nurseries Association...
More than two-thirds of families with disabled children are not accessing care or family support services, according to government research.
The Family and Childcare Trust is calling on the Government to invest the £535 million savings from delayed Tax-Free Childcare as capital funding, so that local authorities and providers can offer...
Poetry has great developmental importance for children, and rhyming picturebooks are a great way to introduce it, finds Andy McCormack
Scottish families are being urged to help researchers in their efforts to combat obesity. The Rowett Institute in Aberdeen is seeking more than 200 families with pre-school children to try to...
Parents in London pay more for childcare and are less able to rely on the support of grandparents than families in other parts of the country, according to research by the Daycare Trust.
Parents would feel more comfortable leaving their children in childcare if the Every Child Matters framework contained more family-friendly policies, the author of a report by a leading think-tank has...
Early years organisation PACEY has commissioned research into the decline in childminding and the reasons for it, as the latest Ofsted statistics show a fall of 1,000 childminders in a three-month...
The tricky move from nursery to school is a key focus of the EYPP. Charlotte Goddard finds out how settings are preparing children – and monitoring their progress after they leave
Practitioners and teachers play a key role in supporting five- to seven-year-olds to build on the bedrock of thinking skills acquired in the early years.