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I think Leicester City Council's decision to cut provision for three-year-olds from the start of next term is disgusting (News, 4 October). My daughter should have had funding in January, but now we...
Hot on the heels of Bright Horizons Family Solutions' acquisition of Kinderquest, Busy Bees has snapped up the Lancashire-based Kindercare Childcare Centres group (see News, page 4), taking it to...
Children from poor families with out-of-work parents are less likely than children who are better off to attend an early years setting or use the free entitlement to childcare for three- and...
The Scottish Pre-School Play Association has published a policy pack to help playgroups sign up to good practice. The pack includes guidelines on behaviour management, staff development, child...
(Photograph) - Joseph, age four, gets to grips with one of 25 baby giant African land snails that were found abandoned in an ice cream tub on the doorstep of Primary Steps Day Nursery in...
The proportion of families using breakfast clubs has doubled in the last seven years, according to the DfE's latest survey of parents.
In the second part of our series explaining recent financial changes to hit the sector, Hannah Crown and Karen Faux look at the various scenarios possible for the new national living wage
An attempt by peers to maintain the legal duty on local authorities in England to assess the sufficiency of childcare in their local area has failed.
A new Level 2 qualification for school support staff is to be introduced later this summer. The qualification will comprise of two core units covering the care and support of pupils and team-working...
Government encouragement of employer-subsidised childcare has been given a warm welcome in the sector, but does it go far enough? Simon Vevers reports When Chancellor Gordon Brown confirmed in his...