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After many years of lobbying by childcare organisations, the Government's proposals to extend tax breaks for employer-supported childcare look set to make significant advances (see News, page 4). Tax...
As soon as any kind of assessment is formalised into a league table, it will be seized upon and interpreted in a misguided manner. Just look at what has happened with SATs. So it is with the 2005...
Unease is growing over some of the proposals in the Childcare Bill, with early years and childcare professionals raising their voices at several recent events (see News, page 4). There has been such a...
More needs to be done to help families with the cost of childcare, says a new report that looks at the impact of the credit crunch on ordinary families.
The establishment of another organisation to represent nanny agencies has been criticised by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (see News, page 4). REC believes the Association of Nanny...
The crisis of childcare recruitment and salaries is intensifying as Government investment pours into neighbourhood nurseries and extended schools. The private sector is being particularly badly hit,...
The Sun appealed to parents to send in pictures of their children sitting on the 'naughty step', made famous by supernanny Jo Frost. The paper ran a two-page feature on Monday with snaps of 14...
The Foundation Stage Profile national results for 2004 have been released (see News, page 4). But will publication of percentages of children working towards, meeting or exceeding early learning goals...
Revelations from the Soham murder trial about how a man with many allegations of rape and underage sex against him managed to get a job as a primary school caretaker should lead to some changes in the...
A survey of parents carried out as part of the evaluation found that 90 per cent of them were aware of the 15-hour free entitlement.