The Government's proposals to track pre-school children with parents in jail, on the grounds that they are at a higher risk of becoming criminals themselves, have been met with concern by childcare...
How did the early years property sector perform in 2013, and what does 2014 look like? Karen Faux talks to the experts to find out.
The Scottish Executive has put up for consultation its ambitious plans for Scotland's early years workforce, with new management qualifications, higher numbers of graduate-level staff and a single...
What with the overhaul of the sector's qualifications structure, the extension of the free entitlement and further work on the single funding formula, nursery managers are braced for a year in which...
A documentary charting the development of 50 four-year-olds at nursery re-emerges as a series tomorrow.
The Cambridge Primary Review has garnered compliments from the early years sector for its recommendation of extending the EYFS approach upwards and raising the school starting age to six (see News,...
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...
Private and voluntary sector providers are often quoted as calling for a 'level playing field' with state-funded childcare. This week there's good news and bad news - some bits of the field appear to...
Children with additional needs are supported at one setting in south London in a dedicated nurture space, explains Luke Page, head of Triangle Nursery School
This issue of Nursery Chains is published at a very interesting time for the groups of providers who are leading the way in the development of the private daycare sector. Our league table round-up...