The SEED project will follow thousands of children from age two to the end of Key Stage 1. Charity 4Children reports on the story so far.
We report in this issue on interesting moves in Islington, north London, where a council pilot scheme is keeping reception-age children at children's centres to complete the whole of the Foundation...
In 2003, the national standards for under-eights daycare and childminding in England were repackaged with the Sure Start heading. But can anybody find any reference in these revised booklets to 'Birth...
More than 500 childcare places are to disappear with the demise of Scottish chain KidCare and the BBC's decision to phase out its workplace nurseries (see News, page 4). The two events, while...
I think that rather than calling the eight-page pull-out 'All About Painting and Drawing' (7 March), a good name for it would have been 'Art Torture for Tots'. What age group is the author of this...
National standards for the regulation of childcare agencies are due to be published later this month. Agencies that were operating before 1 April 2003 were deemed to be registered with the Scottish...
There are some new faces in our Top 25 table of nursery groups this year, and in our extensive directory too. Catherine Gaunt analyses the latest moves in both size and quality of the chains.
With schools around the country facing an alarming funding crisis, how will they be able to improve pay and prospects for teaching assistants? Simon Vevers reports. When Nottinghamshire became the...