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School dinners made a reappearance in the news last week as Cherie Blair joined her husband on the campaign trail. The Daily Telegraph reported that during a visit to World's End infant and nursery...
Qualified EYPs are to receive new funding to support them in their professional development. This funding will come from local authorities and in many cases be directed through their existing support...
It was so good to see the news story 'High marks for childminders' (5 July). I would like to congratulate all those who are on the four childminding networks. It is great to see that there are...
Reading the 11 January Nursery World, there are two things which prompt me to write in. First, I cannot understand why the lead news story on the new Early Years Foundation Stage framework quotes an...
As the nine to five working day becomes ever less common, the need grows for childcare in what used to be called unsocial hours. Evening work, night shifts, weekend work - parents who have little...
The General Teaching Council (GTC) in Scotland has launched a last-ditch protest against the Scottish Executive's decision to phase out a legal requirement for local authorities to have a qualified...
If further proof is needed that the culture of testing and formally assessing young children in our education system needs to be reversed, then our news story on private tuition for toddlers (page 9)...
Reading some of the reactions to the so-called 'increase' in holiday entitlement (News, 21 September), I started to imagine how the 'Act for the Better Regulation of Chimney Sweepers and their...
The establishment of another organisation to represent nanny agencies has been criticised by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (see News, page 4). REC believes the Association of Nanny...
News that childminders who become home childcarers under the new Government plan launched last month will have to give up their self-employed status seems to sound a death knell for the fledgling...