Found 20242 results for "Employer Zone|Other"
Despite the Government spending 7bn on childcare per year, British parents currently spend 27 per cent of their income on childcare. A poorly-structured system means we are not getting value for...
The three-month time limit for bringing a tribunal claim has changed in the face of new regulations that require disputes to go through an early conciliation process, explains Jacqui Mann.
Employment law has changed this year and other new legislation is on its way in 2012. Jacqui Mann, managing director of HR4 Nurseries, reviews the important developments and urges employers to keep...
Fathers who live with their partner and children work longer hours than other men in full-time positions, but their hours have fallen in the past ten years, finds new research.
The Association of Play Industries (API) has written to the Prime Minister and other ministers urging them to match the funding commitment to children’s play spaces pledged by Scotland’s First...
A group of childminding experts, many of them at the forefront of professionalising the sector, have written to the chair of the Education Select Committee to protest at its proposal to split...
Charlotte Goddard looks at what early years settings can do to narrow the ‘attainment gap’ and alleviate hardship and other issues that have increased during the pandemic
Taking children out in the car has its own vital set of rules, wherever you're going. Simon Vevers does a checklist There's the last-minute scramble to find pencil cases, gym kits and those brand new...
The Government is finally extending its tax credit system to parents using unregistered childcare. <B>Simon Vevers</B> looks at the pros and cons
With the EYFS adding to pressures for better trained staff, financial stresses are pushing early years settings from the other direction. Mary Evans hears why.