The Equal Opportunities Commission is carrying out a major study into gender segregation in five employment sectors where there are skills shortages - construction, plumbing, engineering, ICT and...
The role of employers in supporting and providing for their staff's childcare needs will be a major issue in the next few years. Last week's conference by the London Development Agency, Bright...
It might not be such a happy first birthday for the 30 hours programme as parents start to protest over extra charges
The chief executive and founder of Connect Childcare says that early years settings should only use paper for drawing and sticking.
In your work with young children, do you place enough stress on promoting physical development? The focus on communication, language and literacy and mathematical development in particular means that...
At last the ten-year strategy for childcare has been unveiled by Chancellor Gordon Brown (see News, page 4). The 90-odd pages of Choice for parents, the best start for children contain much of...
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...
An out-of-school club has been closed after two men were arrested in connection with an investigation into child pornography.