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A few years ago it would have been hard to imagine a Labour Party conference where the Prime Minister, the Chancellor and the education secretary all made childcare a major theme of their speeches....
The frustration of English nursery owners over long delays in criminal records checks for new employees is evident. The situation in England looks to be not half so bad as that in Scotland, however...
Anthea Thomas (Letters, 10 April) fails to see the true picture of how vulnerable childminders would be if Ofsted's plans to put their personal details on its website go ahead. With the Children's...
Many disadvantaged families are still being failed by the children's centre programme, according to delegates and speakers at last week's annual Sure Start conference in London.
The first private nursery chains are taking steps into the new Neighbourhood Nurseries scheme for disadvantaged areas. Anne Wiltsher reports The 108-place Jigsaw nursery in Portsmouth, one of the...
Scottish families are being urged to help researchers in their efforts to combat obesity. The Rowett Institute in Aberdeen is seeking more than 200 families with pre-school children to try to...
Despite improvements, dental health problems among children are still a reality. Meredith Jones Russell looks at what is being done.
Nurseries and early years professionals will be expected to play a greater role in monitoring childrens health under new proposals from the Scottish Executive.