Cary Rankin has been appointed the new managing director for England at Bertram Nursery Group, where he is to oversee expansion of operations.
The conception rate among under-18s saw a slight fall in figures released by the Office of National Statistics last week. In 2004, pregnancies among 15- to 17-year-olds in England and Wales decreased...
Childcarers with wanderlust are invited to apply for the Lady Allen of Hurtwood Memorial Trust annual travel awards. The awards, which do not usually exceed 1,000, enable people working with children...
(Photograph) - Twenty children, aged four to 15, from Barnardo's projects in Belfast, Lisburn, Bangor and Banbridge in Northern Ireland visited 10 Downing Street last week for a Christmas party with...
In response to the letter by Maggie Dyer (15 March) about childminders being allowed to smoke and smack, I would like to tell her that we childminders are fighting to change this. We don't want the...
The National Early Years Network is marking the tenth anniversary of the UK's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child by devoting its annual conference to examining the...
New fathers are being refused their right to paid paternity leave because they have not given their employer the 15 weeks' notice period required by law, a new report from Citizens' Advice reveals....
We all know how important a child's first years are, but increasingly research is showing the full impact of those early experiences on our education and later lives.
Nearly one in three codes issued to parents for the 30 hours by the end of August have not been validated by providers or local authorities.
Heads of early years services have warned that the level of capital funding from the Government for the second wave of children's centres is inadequate and will pose a massive challenge to reaching...