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An awareness and recruitment campaign aimed at nursery workers, childminders and other childcarers is to be launched by the Scottish Executive. It will seek to raise the profile of the social services...
The online version of the Common Assessment Framework (CAF), known as eCAF, has been launched by Capita Children's Services to help local authorities evaluate children's needs. The system is compliant...
For settings other than full daycare - sessional care, childminding, creches and out-of-school care - the original proposals for national standards will stand, with the manager expected to be...
Co-operative Childcare has introduced science gardens - through a creative process involving all 50 of its settings. Meredith Jones Russell reports.
The chief executive of nursery group Creative Education Corporation, which trades under the brand name Primary Steps, has resigned. David Alexander has been replaced by acting chief executive Paul...
I was interested in the letter by Tracy Jones about being forced to the bottom of the pay scale on changing jobs ('Go back to "go" in nursery nurse pay scales', 1 February). I have frequently been in...
Local authorities must promote public awareness of the need for parents to notify them of any private fostering arrangements, under new minimum standards in the Children Act. The standards have been...
Plans for the police to create databases of 'sensitive information' about young children whom they believe could become criminals will raise serious concerns about human rights. An adult whose name...
Private and voluntary sector nurseries are more vulnerable to closure in the current economic climate now that the Early Years Single Funding Formula has been delayed by a year, the National Day...
I am dismayed at the comments made by Sue Seabrook of the Children's Society ('Home to stay', 30 January). As a local authority foster carer and registered community childminder working for social...