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The Kids' Clubs Network has called on parents to press schools, local authorities and employers to ensure there is sufficient childcare during the summer holidays while they are working. Currently...
Nursery chains are keen to be involved in the provision of out-of-school care, says Simon Vevers, when local authorities and schools welcome them as partners With the Government demanding that schools...
Early years organisations have welcomed the call from the education and childcare minister Elizabeth Truss that local authorities must ensure Government money for free early education places for...
Childcarers have welcomed new legislation that would place strict responsibilities on local authorities, but expressed dismay at measures to ease regulations and funding elsewhere. Simon Vevers...
The First Minister of Wales, Rhodri Morgan, has personally intervened in a row over how some Welsh local authorities are providing the free education entitlement for three- and four-year-olds.
Children's minister Beverley Hughes has confirmed that private and voluntary sector nurseries will be eligible to receive up to Pounds 8,000 a year to recruit graduate early years professionals and...
Local authorities could lack sufficient funds to implement the new duties imposed on them in the Childcare Bill, Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs have warned. The Bill had general cross-party...
This summer, pre-school children are invited to the Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre in Taunton, Somerset, to join Mr and Mrs Sommerflugel and meet their menagerie of animals, in a show combining fantasy,...
Children with disruptive behaviour problems and their parents can benefit from peer-led parenting classes, claims a new study.
Nearly all of us feel that we watch too much television, and that we should make a bigger effort to do other things. Nearly all of us believe that our children watch too much TV, though we can be only...