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Local authorities should make better use of resources rather than close down children's centres, the former head of childcare at the London Development Agency has said.
The hourly funding rate paid by the Government to local authorities for the three-and four-year-old entitlements will rise by 17p an hour in most local authority areas in England from April, the...
The school summer holidays are just starting for many children, but two-thirds of local authorities in England will not have enough holiday childcare for working parents.
More than 5,000 nursery nurse members of the public sector union Unison are voting for the second time in a month on whether to take industrial action across Scotland, after an earlier ballot was...
Amid the debate about the national evaluation of Sure Start and the review of the teaching of reading, which will lead to a focus on phonics as the primary method for very young children, it would be...
Local authorities are calling for more money to fulfil their strategic role in implementing the ten-year childcare strategy and greater clarity from the DfES on their 'market manager' role to make...
A group of parents who are fighting to save 28 children's centres in Hampshire from being merged or privatised travelled to Downing Street on Monday (18 April) to submit a petition of 22,000...
The initial shock, fear and anger over the riots in London and other cities throughout England may be diminishing, but the clearing up and the search for reasons and long-term solutions goes on.
Play and music therapy will form part of a package of support to help adopted children bond with their families.
Scottish local authorities employed 1,992 new non-teaching education staff - a category that includes classroom assistants working with children of all ages - in the year ending June 2002. The Joint...