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Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell considers the missed goals for reducing child poverty If Britain is to make good its promises on the reduction of child poverty in line with international...
This surely must be the best of times for early years and I am delighted to have just been appointed as national director for the National Strategies, Early Years.
A motor insurance policy specifically for childcare providers has been launched by childcare insurance specialist Morton Michel. Those insuring a vehicle under the policy will be automatically insured...
Further to the letter by Maxine Burrows (25 July), the police checks should be individual to each setting, otherwise how can this be classed as a 'check'? Surely when we take on staff a police check...
Settings need to celebrate diversity and promote inclusion if they are to recruit and retain men in childcare and education, believes Chrissy Meleady, chair of the pioneering Sheffield Children's...
The National Day Nurseries Association is launching a policy paper, A day nursery vision for childcare, at this week's Labour Party conference to show why existing provision is an integral part of...
Childminder agencies are a hot topic again now that the DfE has drafted in the charity 4Children to support interested organisations, but the model still divides opinion. Charlotte Goddard reports
David Miliband has been appointed school standards minister for England. Mr Miliband, former head of the prime minister's policy unit in 10 Downing Street, replaced Stephen Timms in last week's...
Giving the lowdown on the UK’s biggest nursery groups, Catherine Gaunt presents this year’s table, looks at their Ofsted performance and assesses the state of the market