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Private and voluntary sector providers are often quoted as calling for a 'level playing field' with state-funded childcare. This week there's good news and bad news - some bits of the field appear to...
‘Birth to 5 Matters – Guidance by the sector, for the sector’ is on track to be launched later this month after the final sector consultation on the non-statutory Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)...
A boy of seven unwittingly ran up a 1,300 bill on a 'free' iPad app after he downloaded expensive extras in error, said the Daily Mail. Heidi Drager from Barnsley, South Yorkshire downloaded the Tap...
A new guide from the charity Grandparents Plus offers help to grandparents who provide emotional, practical and financial support to families.
National Childcare Month is now officially under way, and June is packed with activities and events to celebrate the great work done by people in this sector. With many of the main organisations - the...
Name: Lucy Scott Job title: Hospital playworker Name of department and organisation: Specialised Play Department, Birmingham Children's Hospital Location: Birmingham Duties
After years of campaigning by school support staff and their unions, education secretary Alan Johnson has essentially put the stamp of approval on the creation of a national pay structure (see News,...
Next month Labour will have been in power for ten years, a decade characterised by constant change in every aspect of early years provision and childcare. Yet as our Comment (see page 31) and Special...
If the Government wants to play Santa Claus to the UK's working parents, it could start with the incentives to expand employer-supported childcare that chancellor Gordon Brown alluded to in his...