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One of Northern Ireland's leading playgroups has changed its name and legal status in a bid to help it survive after a local authority nursery unit opens nearby later this year. The award-winning...
By Josie Appleton, convenor of the Manifesto Club, which campaigns against 'over-cautious' child protection measures The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act, which comes into force in 2008, will make...
Liz Bayram, chief executive of the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY), examines what childminder agencies could mean for childminders and the families that use them.
Am I missing something, or does it seem to other people that we are hearing the death knell for sessional pre-schools when the Government's ten-year strategy is implemented? Many pre-schools will be...
The records and information that early years providers must keep on the children in their care are outlined in the last of our series by Laura Henry.
Quality control Managers need to be aware of their staff members' individuality, says Mairi Maciver Clark.
A swathe of new big policy documents are hitting the early years sector from September, starting with the new inspection framework. Hannah Crown has a handy summary of what is happening and when
Early years organisations have accused the Children’s Commissioner for England of ‘ignoring the PVI sector’ in her new Vision for Childcare report, in which she suggests schools are the solution to...
By Susan Hay, chair of Nurseryworks Family Solutions, Kinderquest,Red Apple Nurseries and Bright Horizons Ireland. It is often the case that if a profession is having difficulty meeting the needs of...