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Childcare organisations have welcomed the news that early years settings in England will be allowed to stay open during lockdown, but called for more financial support.
I had a letter published in Nursery World in January 2004 voicing my concerns over tax credits and the lax checks from the Inland Revenue. Since then I have been requested to check several of my...
Professor Siraj-Blatchford says, 'Artificially "teaching" synthetic phonics in large groups of four-year-olds will ultimately be anti-literacy development' (News, 6 April). Surely this is what is...
Further to the news story about the childcare course run by International Correspondence Schools ('500 for uncredited course', 18 September), I was disappointed to discover when I finished the course...
Owners of Scottish childcare businesses can brush up their leadership skills and hear how to expand at a residential weekend supported by the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Small Business Gateway. The...
As soon as any kind of assessment is formalised into a league table, it will be seized upon and interpreted in a misguided manner. Just look at what has happened with SATs. So it is with the 2005...
Following the news story 'Ofsted acts on childminders' (12 September), I am writing to clarify the position on the law relating to unregistered childminders, as the first two paragraphs of the story...
I read 'Nutrition off the menu at childminders' (News, 23 February) with interest and concern. I have been a registered childminder for more than seven years and I have always given the children in my...
Not only will the survivors of the Beslan massacre be traumatised, but children elsewhere may be distressed by the news. Andrea Clifford-Poston offers advice for understanding and responding to them
Plans for a cross-cutting review of the early years sector in England have been revealed in more detail by early years and childcare minister Catherine Ashton (News, 15 November). She told the Daycare...