Ofsted spends six times as much on regulating and inspecting a childcare place with a childminder as it does on one at an early years setting, an analysis by Nursery World reveals.
The apprenticeship levy will worsen the North-South divide in training opportunities and jobs, a leading think-tank has warned.
WINNER: Birth to Five Service, Lincolnshire County Council
A centre for playwork education and training is being planned in the east of England, covering a region roughly stretching from the Wash to the Thames and including Luton and Peterborough. The area is...
The early bird rate for Nursery World's trip to see early years education in Finland and Sweden has been extended to Friday 8 January.
- A baby born prematurely survived falling from the toilet of a moving train in India just moments after her birth, reported the Daily Telegraph.
The economic incentives offered to encourage mothers to return to work ignore the parent's crucial role in the early years, Sally Goddard Blythe believes
More than one in 20 children are sleeping on the floor because they don’t have a bed of their own, according to findings from a survey by children’s charity Barnardo’s.
Childminding networks in England have been successful in contributing to the quality of childcare, supporting childminders, raising their status and improving retention rates, according to a report...