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The new SEN Code of Practice will include pre-school children for the first time from January next year. In a new mini series, Collette Drifte explains how to prepare for it
More than 80 per cent of people agree that the Government should fund minimum levels of provision for early years.
Playday, the annual celebration of children's play, taking place on 2 August, has as this year's theme 'Play, naturally', says the Children's Play Council. The CPC will research the loss of play...
Two leading charities campaigning for improved work-life balance, Parents At Work and New Ways to Work, have merged to form a new pressure group, Working Families. At its launch in London last...
Great media prominence is being given to the Government's early childhood policy, with Penelope Leach's and Oxford University's recent research finding that, all other factors being equal, young...
More than 130,000 children are living in poverty because their working parents struggle with paying for childcare, new research claims.
The Government is to press ahead with clawing back overpayments of tax credits to two million families, ignoring advice from the parliamentary ombudsman that they should be written off for poorer...
Treating males and females as equal is not always easy in early years settings dealing with an unbalanced workforce and families' different cultural beliefs, says Anne O'Connor.
By Brian Cooper, owner of Meir Park Day Nursery in Stoke-on-Trent I am confused by the Government's approach to the subject of pay in early years, particularly in the private sector. The DfES (News,...
Penny Owen (Letters, 25 May) is spot-on with her denunciation of companies who make batches of voucher payments without the information the provider needs to allocate them to the right parents. The...