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A group of parents who are fighting to save 28 children's centres in Hampshire from being merged or privatised travelled to Downing Street on Monday (18 April) to submit a petition of 22,000...
In last week's news story 'Call for action on falling occupancy', the survey of 5,000 private and voluntary sector providers was carried out by Nursery and Childcare Market News in its 2005 Survey of...
Torbay in Devon has the highest proportion of outstanding and good childminders, nurseries and pre-schools, with more than nine in ten early years providers achieving at least a good grade.
Funding for special needs nursery staff whose posts were 'dis- established' in February by Lancashire County Council (News, 27 July) will not be taken over by their local primary care trusts.
Up to 1.1bn of Government funding for the free entitlement for three- and four-year-olds is not being passed on to nurseries by local authorities, says a new report.
Public services union Unison has denied claims by Scotland's local authority employers that nursery nurses are on the brink of settling their long-running dispute over pay and workloads at a local...
Nearly half of councils in Scotland have yet to make a decision on the hourly rates they will pay childcare providers from next week, reveals a FOI.
Local authorities have been accused of dull, unimaginative playgrounds because of an over-reliance on an identical 'KFC' approach ('kit, fence and carpet'), which has grown out of the pressure to...
In this true story, an experienced nanny tells Helen Kewley about how a false accusation blackened her reputation with employment agencies 'I couldn't believe what had just happened to me. As I sat in...
Foundations has launched the Family Hubs Planning Framework to provide evidence-based information for local authorities.