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Schools in Worcestershire are being asked to take part in a one-year pilot scheme to extend the free early years entitlement to 15 hours from September. The local authority is suggesting that schools...
The Government has named the 15 local authorities in England that will pilot free childcare for two-year-olds from this month. Education secretary Ruth Kelly revealed more details of the pilots on...
A new Level 3 transitional qualification available from next spring will enable early years practitioners and playworkers to move between sectors. SkillsActive Playwork Unit and the National Day...
The Government's proposal to require all childcare staff to be qualified to level 3 sounds laudable, but is it really such a good idea? Mary Evans seeks out views across the sector.
Next month Labour will have been in power for ten years, a decade characterised by constant change in every aspect of early years provision and childcare. Yet as our Comment (see page 31) and Special...
There are circumstances where sessional providers and/or school nursery classes find it difficult to respond to deliver the 15 hours flexibly.
I don't think that classroom assistants should get paid over any holiday periods. If they are not qualified nursery nurses, they don't deserve the same rights as nursery nurses if they are being used...