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Following lobbying by local providers, Harrogate Borough Council has introduced a 50 per cent reduction in business rates for nurseries.
Sure Start budgets were revealed last week in the local authority children's services funding for 2006 to 2008. Sure Start local programme funding has been rolled into the General Sure Start Grant...
The new St Ives Children's Centre in Cornwall opened with a story from local author Phil Moran, who read his latest book Soggy the Bear to children, parents and staff. Other activities on the day...
Unite the union is calling for money to be redirected from the National Child Measurement Programme into creating school nursing posts to combat childhood obesity, as the latest figures show a rise in...
Drawing on their new research on nursery closures for the Local Government Association, the director of isos Partnership, Jodie Reed, says there is a 'long distance to travel' for the extension of the...
The experiences young children have with their carers can shape the development of their brains and influence the sort of people they become, says Maria Robinson.
An equal pay claim on behalf of nearly 1,000 teaching assistants has been lodged by Unison, in what it believes to be the largest claim of its kind in the UK and Europe. The claim could affect the...
Evidence is mounting that private and voluntary nurseries' participation in the Nursery Education Grant scheme is at crisis point, with a survey from the Federation of Small Businesses (see News, page...
We've got ten copies of BEAM's MiniMaths 2 by Kim Connor (16.50) to give away to readers. This recently published, colourful book is full of mathematical games and activities cross-referenced to the...
The Children's Commissioner for England has called for children to take over the country on 23 November, to mark the 18th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of...