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More parents than ever in England are using formal childcare to look after their children during the week, according to research by the National Centre for Social Research (NCSR), launched to coincide...
How the sector can maintain the right training for graduates and staff was the theme of this Big Debate with Voice at Nursery World’s recent Business Summit. Karen Faux reports
The number of lone-parent families in Northern Ireland has more than doubled in the past 20 years from 11 per cent of families with dependent children in 1983 to 24 per cent today, according to data...
Kit and caboodle Tired of carrying jam sandwiches in your handbag or baby bottles and an emergency change of clothes in a supermarket sack? The Caboodle Bag rucksack could have been tailor-made for...
'The Education Bill promises to expose the battles between the Treasury, who want to rein in spending, the No 10 Policy Unit, who want to end public sector control, and the Department for Education...
Just because someone has Doctor or Professor in front of their name, it doesn't necessarily mean they have all the answers. Jennie Lindon offers some healthy scepticism. A spate of recent court cases...
Some interesting issues are raised by the guidance on developing children's centres which has just been published by the Sure Start unit (see News, page 4). Not least is the expectation that more than...
Ofsted's consultation on its plans for revamping childcare inspections was rather brief, given the importance of the changes, but there was a great deal of agreement that the main proposals were on...
Ofsted's new report into children's experiences of education at age six in England, Denmark and Finland is bound to stir up the debate about school starting age once more (see News, page 4). Sure...
Education and Childcare Minister Elizabeth Truss gives the Government's view of the importance of the two-year-olds programme