The Department for Education and Employment has been warned that nursery schools across the UK are facing closure. The problem has been highlighted by a series of conferences for nursery school...
From next month it's all change for the Childcare Approval Scheme in England. The scheme is coming under the voluntary part of the new Ofsted Childcare Register, to which applications will have to be...
The group 38 Degrees is urging people to write to their MP to support an amendment to the Academies Bill to ensure that schools seeking academy status will have to consult the local community.
Leading expert Kay Mathieson will be providing advice on this hot topic in a one-hour seminar on Friday 5 February.
Take an hour at Nursery World North on 5 May to hear about inspection priorities and progress from Ofsted's Gill Jones.
The UK appears doomed to be a nation waddling towards a fat future, according to the Foresight report on obesity (see News, page 4).
Music For Starters is repeating its popular workshop, Music Making with Babies (Birth to First Steps) in London on 5 November.
The nursery nurses' strike in Scotland is causing clashes of opinion between those who would normally see themselves as partners in caring for young children. Staff taking industrial action are...
Of all the initiatives pushed through by the Government in the past few years, the Transformation Fund seems to have caused the most confusion and suspicion. It is very difficult to engage with...
Congratulations to the nurseries and pre-schools of Kent for turning out in such force to the council's meeting about the Code of Practice on nursery education funding (see News, page 4). Some 400...