Early years providers are unsure whether they will offer the funded places for one and two-year-olds, while many that plan to will limit the number that are available, reveal new survey findings.
Delivering his Autumn Budget 2018 yesterday, the Chancellor announced more money for Universal Credit, children’s social care and the NHS, but nothing for the early years sector.
Levels of severe obesity in children aged 10 to 11 years have reached the highest point since records began.
Two-thirds of primary schools have signed up for the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme for four- and five-year-olds, according to the Department for Education, which is encouraging...
4 DECEMBER - Mummy's Black, Daddy's Yellow and I'm Orange: Talking With Young Children About Racial Equality. This new National Children's Bureau course will focus on practical ways to understand the...
Recruitment and training issues shadowed the Government's revelations of plans for its Sure Start unit, which is overseeing work in early years, childcare and Sure Start in England. At a conference in...
An alliance of more than 180 organisations committed to children's rights has criticised the Government for not referring to smacking in its child protection Green Paper, Every child matters. The...
A nursery owner in Cumbria has warned that another year of chaos in the criminal records check and childcare inspection systems will put providers under such stress that some will be unable to cope....
BEAM (which simply stands for Be A Mathematician) was set up in 1987 as part of the Inner London Education Authority large maths group. Its aim was to produce resources that would complement the...
The early years sector has raised concerns that the timing of the Government's Childcare Commission consultation, over the summer holidays and during the Olympics, will limit the number of...