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Providing early education places for three- and four-year-olds is leaving nurseries nearly twice as much out of pocket than a year ago, a new survey suggests.
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell says that lazy respect for religion and culture can blind us to children's suffering. There is something about faith that makes people lose their minds. In the...
An international award for services to parents and babies has been made to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantristant. Welsh health minister Jane Hutt presented staff at the hospital with the UNICEF...
It was very heartening to hear Jane Cole, a member of the DfES Foundation Stage team, pledge last week that outdoor play would be accorded its proper place in the forthcoming framework covering birth...
The amount of state intervention in the lives of individuals is a particularly pointed issue in childcare and parenting, with government interference in all areas constantly referred to as 'the nanny...
Providers across the early years sector should have in their postbag by now a set of the national care standards that relate to their type of provision, and the accompanying guidance.
Here's another way to raise funds. Teachers can send the children's paintings or drawings to the Vanilla Card Company, which will turn each into a greetings card and return it to the school or nursery...
Children's fascination with dinosaurs can provide an excellent stimulus to developing literacy skills Early years practitioners will be in no doubt about the enthusiasm of young children for all...
By Karen Buck, Labour MP for Regent's Park and Kensington North I have experience of excellent childcare provision playing a vital role in changing lives and helping to transform neighbourhoods.
Early years organisations responding to the Government consultation on the proposed changes to the entitlement to free early education and childcare sufficiency have stressed that funding must reach...