I think Leicester City Council's decision to cut provision for three-year-olds from the start of next term is disgusting (News, 4 October). My daughter should have had funding in January, but now we...
Busy Bees has confirmed the closure of ten Leapfrog nurseries it acquired from Nord Anglia because they were losing money, with occupancy levels below 40 per cent and in one case as low as 15 per...
As the start of the next academic year approaches, Karen Hart finds out how early years settings can appraise their provision and spaces for the arrival of new children
Nearly all of us feel that we watch too much television, and that we should make a bigger effort to do other things. Nearly all of us believe that our children watch too much TV, though we can be only...
(Photograph) - One-year-old Kali Cox and Polly the doll are modelling cotton nappies for For Under Fives at Lincoln County Hospital Day Nursery. The nursery is taking part in 'Real Nappy Week' (23-29...
Settings often struggle with planning for under-threes, to the detriment of provision. Jennie Lindon explains some key aspects of developmentally appropriate planning for young children Effective...
Nine play projects across England have been awarded a total of 1.8m in grants by the Big Lottery Fund, as part of its Pounds 155m children's play initiative. The grants were awarded as part of the...
Impassioned reactions to the Government's 'More Great Childcare' reforms continue to pour in, as you can see from our News pages, our Letters page and our website.
We are extremely sorry that the Professional Nanny conference scheduled to take place earlier this month had to be cancelled by the organisers because of the low number of advance bookings, and we...