The Daycare Trust is urging early years settings to reach out to fathers and grandparents as this year's National Childcare Week gets underway (2-9 July 2012).
I read with interest the feature on the education select committee report on the early years ('Backbench view', 25 January) and the suggestion that the Government develop a 'ladder of training for...
Care Commission staff, local authority workers, development and support staff, trainers and heads of childcare services will be turning out in force at a series of seminars on the new national...
Modern Apprenticeship The Government has just relaunched the Modern Apprenticeship scheme, which it hopes will offer a combination of on-and off-the-job education and training to people aged 16 to 24...
Maxamec is a new wooden construction kit system from Direct Educational Services which enables children to build structures large enough to sit on, ride or push. The system consists of 5-ply painted...
You can help the children in your care cook up a tasty summer by taking them along to holiday classes at the Kids' Cookery School in Acton, London W3. Special themed sessions will focus on bread...
The National Children's Bureau's Children's Centre Project (CCP), a consortium of seven children's charities looking at new models of collaborative working, has appointed Dominic Fox as its director....
Two free NVQ courses are offering residents of a housing association in London the chance to brush up on their parenting and childcare skills. Residents of Octavia Housing and Care, which manages...
A major conference on the impact of the forthcoming SEN and Disability Act for children and young people with disabilities in schools and colleges is to be held in London next month. 'Preparing for...
This issue of Nursery Chains is bigger, brighter and better than ever before, packed with the latest information about the private nursery providers who are spearheading the growth of the childcare...