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All three- and four-year-olds in Scotland can now claim 1140 hours of free early learning and childcare.
Proposals for childcare vouchers may not offer immediate relief but their benefits will be felt in the long term says Susan McGhee, commercial director of Bertram Nursery Group
Childminder agencies are due to become law in a year's time, and the Government's proposals are causing increasing alarm.
The Royal baby may be in line for succession as monarch of the whole UK, but devolution seems to be increasingly afoot in terms of policies on early years.
If new practitioners are trained in a new qualification that doesn't even mention play, will they be the informed professionals that children deserve?
Dr Katherine Runswick-Cole is a senior research fellow in disability studies and psychology at the Research Institute for Health and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Support staff in schools have for years been treated as the poor relations in the education system, with low and unequal pay, often only in term-time, bad working conditions and few training...
Ignoring the importance of the early years creates a vicious circle where children are always the losers, says trainer Ann Vincent
It is time to highlight the essentials of effective early years practice in schools, says Nancy Stewart
Dr Lala Manners takes issue with the lack of emphasis given to physical development in the new EYE qualifications