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The Department for Education has launched a consultation into increasing registration fees for early years providers, as well as whether provider type categories need revising.
If your stomach wasn't turned by the sight of what goes into Turkey Twizzlers, as shown on the Channel Four programme 'Jamie Oliver's School Dinners,' it might be by the news that sales for the...
I felt compelled to write in response to the feature about Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships ('Fingers and thumbs?', 18 April). As the owner and manager of a private day nursery for...
The Daycare Trust has been commissioned by the Government Office for London (GOL) to work with local authorities in the capital to help deliver sufficient childcare.
Changes to be introduced to the Children Act 1989 from this September could give Ofsted discretionary powers to allow people to work with children even though they have had a criminal record. The move...
Local authorities in England will be given new duties to ensure that there are sufficient Sure Start children's centres in their area, the Government said last week.
Traditional playground games allow children to burn off excess energy. Lynne Garner describes some modern variations we all played them when we were children, learning the rules from one another or...
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...
Unison's chief negotiators have been forced to back down in their fight for a national pay settlement for Scotland's nursery nurses. At a meeting last week the public services trade union agreed that...