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Early years organsiations that have long campaigned for early years funding reform have broadly welcomed the plans.
Accessible, affordable, high-quality childcare has been the mantra of this Government, but two news stories this week highlight how far this has to go before it is within reach of all parents (see...
After the sometimes sensationalist reports in the national press last week about 'nurseries turning children into thugs', the early years sector and the Government need to give a clear message to...
Some councils are wrongly withholding thousands of pounds in contingency funding. Jo Parkes speaks to settings who have successfully claimed it back
Nurseries have been warned to be on their guard following bogus calls from a company claiming they owe it hundreds of pounds for educational publications. Laura Fraser, owner of Rowan Tree Nursery in...
Local authorities are focusing on existing provision as they start to carry out assessments of childcare as part of their new duties under the Childcare Act. Nursery World spoke to three local...
Oliver and Olivia are the most popular baby names in England and Wales for the second year running, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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...
New measures from the Government do not bode well for many in the early years.
Nursery group Careshare has questioned the official advice it received in the wake of the E. coli 0157 outbreak at the Lauder College nursery in Dunfermline. The chain has introduced its own E.coli...