Childcare professionals are being invited by a television production company to take part in a documentary series to help hassled parents bring some order to their chaotic family life. Ricochet South...
Many settings have entered into a partnership agreement to deliver the 15 hours flexible free entitlement.
The charity Barnardo's has had to withdraw its most recent advertising campaign, 'There are no silver spoons for children born into poverty', after a record 466 complaints were made to the Advertising...
The recently published Department for Education business plan suggests options for allowing parents greater flexibility with their 15 hours. We can assume 'stretching' the 15-hour entitlement will be...
Ofsted should not change its inspection process for registered daycare providers in England until it has sorted out the 'bureaucratic nightmares' around childminder registration.
Ofsted has launched a Facebook page to help demystify the process of registering as a childminder.
A resource for teachers of Key Stages 1 and 2 has been produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Animal Focus - Nocturnal Animals is a 24-page, full-colour magazine that...
Providing the 15 hours and responding to the changing needs of parents has, as this column has shown, required much effort by settings to transform their business, workforce, and sometimes premises....
There are circumstances where sessional providers and/or school nursery classes find it difficult to respond to deliver the 15 hours flexibly.