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A survey reveals that providers piloting the free entitlement for disadvantaged two-year-olds are faced with extra costs that are not covered by local authority funding, such as extra staffing and...
Children's centre budgets should be pooled with those for midwives and health visitors, a cross-party committee of MPs has argued.
The controversial online database ContactPoint, holding contact details for every child in England, is up and running in 17 local authorities in the north-west, children's secretary Ed Balls has...
Unison's chief negotiators have been forced to back down in their fight for a national pay settlement for Scotland's nursery nurses. At a meeting last week the public services trade union agreed that...
An international award for services to parents and babies has been made to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantristant. Welsh health minister Jane Hutt presented staff at the hospital with the UNICEF...
A dad has won a landmark ruling over nursery top-up fees for funded places that could have wider implications for nurseries and local authorities across the country.
From family members to the police and shopkeepers, the local community is part of nursery life, as are political issues and making plans. By the Rachel Keeling Nursery School team
Local authorities around the country are clawing back money for unused free entitlement hours for three and four-year-olds, and telling nurseries to bill parents for the lost funding.
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Labour reveals that one in three councils believe they do not have enough places to meet the Government’s two-year-old offer.