The sector has called into question the effectiveness of Ofsted’s inspection regime following a TV report revealing safeguarding and health and safety failings at a nursery rated Good.
Some children are missing out under the Scottish Executive's free fruit scheme, because schools are too scared to hand out fruit containing pips or stones. According to The Daily Telegraph, health and...
* Teddies Nurseries, which provides daycare for private health insurer BUPA, has achieved the Investor in People standard for its staff training. The award was made on the basis of an assessment at...
Year 2 children from Liberton Primary School in Edinburgh pretend they're swimming with sharks at one of the first dance workshops to be rolled out across Scotland. The three-year Dance in Schools...
(Photograph) - Children from Hval Gaard nature kindergarten in Norway enjoy a snowy afternoon round an open campfire. They are outdoors in all weathers and learn to climb trees, go fishing, chop wood...
Young people and parents are to be involved in a cross-government consultation on youth leading to a green paper to be published in the autumn, the DfES has revealed in its Five Year Strategy for...
Giving disabled children and their carers a legal right to respite care is the aim of a Bill launched at parliament by the Every Disabled Child Matters campaign last week. The Disabled Children's...
Children from the Dalmuir early education and childcare centre, near Clydebank in Glasgow, will be tested for pulmonary tuberculosis this week, after it was revealed that a nursery teacher who works...
'I see children of five and younger coming into hospital to have teeth removed under general anaesthetic. In a so-called civilised country in the 21st century, that's unacceptable.' Professor Liz Kay,...
* Childcare providers could benefit from a pack based on a successful project on Early Years Emotional Well-Being launched in Derbyshire last year and involving eight early years settings. Councillor...