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Children's centres should place more emphasis on home visits to reach the most disadvantaged families, new practice guidance for local authorities is advising. Children's minister Beverley Hughes said...
Can you really spot tomorrow's offenders today - in the nursery? Jennie Lindon takes a hard look at Government policy direction The new youth Green Paper on the future development of youth services...
Budget constraints will mean that most primary schools in England and Wales will be unable to afford to allow their teachers to spend 10 per cent of their time on preparation under the workload...
I read with interest two news stories on the same page of the 4 September edition of Nursery World. In the first story, 'Benefits costed in daycare for all', Rosemary Murphy, chief executive of the...
The new national occupational standards for classroom assistants (see News, page 4) are welcome for several reasons. The standards, and the forthcoming NVQs/SVQs that will follow, will be a big step...
The survey of parents' use and views of childcare and early years, commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, paints a complicated picture of the reasons why take-up of formal...
Early years settings furloughed 71 per cent of their staff between March and August, according to new research, which highlights the crisis that many providers will find themselves in when the scheme...
The call by Alan Bentley, chairman of nursery group Childcare Corporation, for the private nursery sector to form a new trade association to represent its interests may seem to have come out of the...
There's no doubt that falling occupancy levels and escalating competition from Government-funded children's centres have put a damper on expansion among the UK's largest private nursery groups (see...
Ahead of this week’s budget and spending review, the chancellor has announced £500m for families and early years support - however there is no sign of any increase in funding for the 15 and 30 hour...