Nine out of ten childminders expect to still be in the job 12 months from now, according to research by the National Childminding Association.
Just one in five private, voluntary or independent full daycare settings employs an early years professional, a survey carried out for the previous Government suggests.
Child poverty campaigners have welcomed changes to the benefit and tax credit system worth just under 1bn as a significant step on the way to halving child poverty by 2010.
The Early Years Foundation Stage is at the heart of the thought-provoking seminar programme at the Nursery World Show 2009. Mary Evans hears what our expert speakers plan to explore with delegates.
The Government's Healthy Schools programme is to be expanded following a decade of success.
An inquiry is to be undertaken into Initial Teacher Training (ITT) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for teachers, the Children, Schools and Families Committee has announced.
Details of the one-off 190 grant to be offered to all pregnant women were revealed by Treasury minister Jane Kennedy at last week's annual conference of the Daycare Trust.
Schools and nurseries again have the opportunity to apply for the Arts Council's benchmark award for arts provision and creativity in education.
Girls continue to do better than boys in the early learning goals at the end of the reception year, according to the latest statistics from the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results.
Sue Gascoyne, managing director of training and resources company Play to Z and winner of Trainer of the Year 2009 in the Nursery World Awards, has been shortlisted for this year's Enterprising Women...