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Representatives from the early years and childcare sector were in celebratory mood at last Thursday's Children's Stars Awards, held at Lloyds of London - and not just because the evening was about...
Unfortunately, it seems that often it takes a tragedy to prompt action over problems that have been brewing for some time. And so the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman have now led to...
Ask any nursery or pre-school manager what they dislike about their job and it's the bureaucracy and paperwork that usually top the list. Everybody accepts that a certain amount is necessary to...
The Government's proposals to track pre-school children with parents in jail, on the grounds that they are at a higher risk of becoming criminals themselves, have been met with concern by childcare...
Practitioners from a range of childcare and early years education settings had an unprecedented chance last week to question children's minister Margaret Hodge about Government policy at a round table...
The weather may be getting hotter, but the crisis over delays with criminal record checks is reaching boiling point (see News, page 4). It is appalling that with the current recruitment shortages in...
Last year's publication of Birth to Three Matters - a framework to support children in their earliest years was a hugely important step towards raising the quality of provision for children under...
The Government's need to tackle secondary education in its second term of office is obviously pressing, but its feeling that the early years sector is now all hunky-dory - education secretary Estelle...
Many fine words are uttered about the need to raise the status of the early years workforce and the professionalism of the sector. Around 600,000 people are now working in early years in an...
In this issue of Nursery Chains we're publishing our first ever league table of the 20 largest groups. Between them, these chains provide around 33,000 childcare places, representing a huge slice of...