The latest findings from the long-term study Effective Provision of Pre-School Education (EPPE) are expected to be released before Easter. The EPPE 3-11 study extends the original project by tracking...
Celebrating diversity is a theme running through this week's Nursery World. We report from the World Forum on Early Care and Education held in New Zealand last week, where delegates from more than 50...
The Government is 'more or less on course' to meet its target of providing full childcare from 8am to 6pm at half of all primary schools by 2008, according to a new report. Research carried out for...
The Government has finally begun to look at bringing independent schools under the national daycare standards and the Children's Act, where they are providing care for very young children (see News,...
Of all the areas of childcare, it is probably childminding that has changed the most over the years since the National Childcare Strategy was introduced. And it is the childminding networks that have...
If the Government wants to play Santa Claus to the UK's working parents, it could start with the incentives to expand employer-supported childcare that chancellor Gordon Brown alluded to in his...
What a hectic week it has been - both for the early years sector and for Nursery World!
Childminder agencies are due to become law in a year's time, and the Government's proposals are causing increasing alarm.
As the big nursery groups continue to expand, there could be a danger that some areas of the country will see provision shrink
The Government is still undecided about relaxing ratios, and the Chancellor's Autumn Budget wasn't full of festive cheer either