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The Department for Education and Skills is seeking views from early years providers on plans for a new system of compulsory registration to replace the current arrangements for childcare for children...
Parents really value being kept in touch with what their child has done during the day, but there's often little time to go into detail or you don't get to see them collect their child. Praisepadz,...
A new book by Professor Helen Penn suggests rather than campaign for greater childcare funding, efforts should be focused on building local authority provision, while curbing the ‘activities of large...
Early years sector organisations have reacted with alarm to more details of funding for the next three financial years, which confirms that the extra money announced for early years entitlements in...
Nursery school campaigners are calling for sector-wide backing and a government rethink on funding reforms after their online petition tipped the 14,000 mark in just over a fortnight.
Name: Barry Payton Position: Co-founder of Haslingden Community Link and Children's Centre, Lancashire
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell says the tax credit crisis could force the Government to rethink childcare funding There is only one honourable way for the Government to face the tax credit...
The findings of the Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey 2009, published by the Department for Education, reveal changing trends in the early years workforce and the demand for their care.
Childcare and early years organisations met Chancellor Gordon Brown's Budget announcement of an increase in the tax and national insurance exemption on employer-supported childcare to 55 with a chorus...
Political party manifestos have been emerging left, right and centre over recent days. And as the NSPCC points out this week (see News, page 5), politicians of all persuasions have been quick to grab...