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Nursery nurses working in maintained settings across Scotland have voted overwhelmingly to take indefinite strike action in pursuit of a salary increase. The strike vote was the latest move in a...
The abduction and murder last month of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, and the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America on 11 September, have both highlighted for me the...
By Liz Railton CBE, programme director, Together for Children Together for Children (TfC) has been operating since October 2006, so I am something of a late arrival as programme director, starting in...
There are at least two sides to every story, and while accountants are currently urging nannies to set themselves up as service companies, in this issue we consider the other side of the sales pitch....
As soon as babies are born they explore the world around them using all of their senses. Children are often surrounded by plastic and other man-made materials; by introducing natural materials you can...
The choice of playmates in different contexts reveals interesting issues about friendship and about gender to Dr Maria Robinson.
By Iain Lauchlan, co-creator and producer of the pre-school television programme 'Tweenies' When we developed the content of 'Tweenies' we studied the pre-school curriculum of the time and made sure...
Fewer than half of the 150 local authorities in England have childminders offering the free early years entitlement.
Nearly one in three codes issued to parents for the 30 hours by the end of August have not been validated by providers or local authorities.
The Stop, Listen, Consult petition has been signed by nearly 4,000 people and calls for the Department for Education to reconsider plans in More Great Childcare.