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The Code of Practice for the free entitlement for three- and four-year-olds is published today, giving parents the right for the first time to ask their local authority to find them free childcare...
Private and voluntary nurseries in Scotland are seeing their number of funded places capped as local authorities move to increase their own provision.
Protests are gathering pace among private day nurseries and pre-schools in Kent over the local authority's conditions for nursery education grant funding. So far, around 30 private and voluntary...
The Department for Education has announced an extension of supplementary funding for nursery schools, along with a boost to childcare funding rates of up to 8p per hour, per child.
Let's not risk boring spaces By Bernard Spiegal, principle of Playlink No negligence claims have been lodged against local authorities for inducing boredom in children, limiting their imaginations, or...
The latest Ofsted results for children's centres suggest that performance is poor in comparison to other types of childcare provision. Gabriella Jozwiak investigates the facts behind the figures.
Only 4 per cent of nurseries in Wales offer Welsh-medium education, while just 8 per cent provide fully bilingual services, according to a survey by the National Day Nurseries Association Cymru. The...
Early years settings will receive just a 6p an hour increase per child for three-and four-year-olds next term, as the Department for Education reverts to pre-Covid funding rates.
To deliver the Foundation Stage curriculum effectively, practitioners need to consider three levels of planning: * long-term plans, which chart the learning opportunities that will be offered through...
* Nursery worker Mavis Weaver will be treated to a big party at the end of the month when she retires from the nursery she co-founded over 30 years ago. Daisy Hill Pre School in Westhoughton,...