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With a New Year upon us, figures from the early years world share what they thought of events in 2009 and what developments they would like to see taking place in the future.
What parents want to know when they are shopping around for childcare settings is revealed by children's minister Dawn Primarolo.
Bright Horizons and Thrive Childcare and Education have each bought a new site.
Children from poor families with out-of-work parents are less likely than children who are better off to attend an early years setting or use the free entitlement to childcare for three- and...
Bright Minds Daycare has opened a second setting with a room featuring a grand piano.
The benefits system needs to reach more families and be raised in line with inflation sooner in order to avoid children going cold and hungry, says Dr Rebecca Montecute of the Sutton Trust
There are lots of things currently keeping nursery director Caroline El-Semman up at night. An ever-diminishing pool of potential recruits, spiralling operational costs and a government that doesn’t...
Families with children comprised nearly one third of the 22,908 people helped last year by the homelessness charity Shelter. The worst affected areas were London and the East Midlands. Shelter...
If friends ask us about the nursery business these days, we tell them to think of it as a hen coop in which several foxes have recently arrived.