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It's been quite a week, with the Children's Workforce Strategy consultation finally being unleashed, along with the Ofsted consultation on further changes to early years inspections (see News). Oh,...
The extension of the nursery education grant for three- and four-year-olds, from 33 to 38 weeks a year from 1 April, should, on the face of it, be good news for non-maintained providers. But examine...
The introduction of child tagging technology in nurseries around the UK does not have quite the same sinister undertones as the use of internet cameras, but it does seem to be a gimmick at best and to...
Schools across the country are up in arms about shortfalls in their budget allocations which, they say, mean that it will be impossible for them to implement the Workload Reduction Agreement, with...
The countdown to the next election is truly under way - and childcare is right at the top of the policy agenda (see News, page 4, and Beatrix Campbell, page 9). Last week saw unprecedented activity...
Nearly all of us feel that we watch too much television, and that we should make a bigger effort to do other things. Nearly all of us believe that our children watch too much TV, though we can be only...
Reform of the early years and childcare workforce is crucial if the UK is to develop top-class provision under the ten-year strategy. Yet increasingly there is a sense of disappointment at the lack of...
Property values in Wales could soon be zooming up, driven by a mass migration to the principality of early years teachers desperate to work under the new Foundation Phase for three-to seven-year-olds...
The report into the UK's early childhood education and care system by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (see News, page 4) has been ready for publication since February....
The City and childcare have not until now been terms associated much with each other - except in that workers in the first sector tend to need a lot of what the second sector provides. But things are...