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The BBC is saving more than 4m by closing down its workplace nurseries and plans to spend the money on programming, Nursery World has learned. Trade unions BECTU and the National Union of Journalists...
A leading foster charity has welcomed the introduction of a national minimum allowance for foster children, but said the rates were 'still far too low'. The allowance for a baby will be 100-116 per...
A welter of statistics and reports has been released in the past week or so despite the fact that it is summer holiday season. Perhaps government and other bodies are hoping that no one will be...
The extent of cuts in Sure Start funding, which could have a serious impact on the running of childrens centres, is beginning to emerge as local authorities set their budgets for the next financial...
The new Early Years Directorate has been dismayed to find that some local authorities in England have failed to make any progress on applications by childcare providers for registration received in...
Further to the news story 'Union warns of threat to teaching standards' (11 April), I have been a teaching assistant for around two years. In that time I have gained much knowledge about child...
There are always different ways of looking at things, and Government reports tend to be more open to interpretation than most. Take the new research into childcare and early years providers that has...
With the national daycare standards about to come into force from September, the Government might have been hoping that the furore over qualifications and training for early years workers had died...
It was with a certain sense of dej... vu that I read about the bureaucratic chaos surrounding criminal record checks (News, 19 September). Some ten years ago, as a criminologist at Manchester...
Margaret Hodge's appointment as minister for children continued to attract a barrage of criticism last week from the press and opposition MPs (see News, page 4). One unfortunate consequence of the...