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The Care Commission has raised concerns with the Scottish Executive about the legal issues involved in accessing the social work and health service records of childcare job applicants. When local...
The Sun appealed to parents to send in pictures of their children sitting on the 'naughty step', made famous by supernanny Jo Frost. The paper ran a two-page feature on Monday with snaps of 14...
The introduction of the Early Years Single Funding Formula will be delayed by a year, the children's minister Dawn Primarolo told MPs today, amid concerns that two-thirds of local authorities are not...
Playing and learning outdoors is fast-becoming a fundamental part of growing up in Scotland, following a national commitment from more than 100 organisations and people across the country.
A boy of seven unwittingly ran up a 1,300 bill on a 'free' iPad app after he downloaded expensive extras in error, said the Daily Mail. Heidi Drager from Barnsley, South Yorkshire downloaded the Tap...
Forty-one play programmes in England are to benefit from 13.46m from the Big Lottery Fund under the 155m children's play initiative. Up to 12m of the money will be shared among 32 local authorities to...
To deny children nursery places because they are not vaccinated (News, 18 October) would amount to blatant discrimination . Some children are not vaccinated purely due to parental choice. Others,...
30 worth of children's books Following the BBC breakfast news coverage of the campaign against the new nursery education grant rules (7 September), I'd like to thank Darrell King, owner of the Old...
Asquith day nurseries is undertaking a major rebranding exercise, with a shift away from a centrally-determined corporate image to one developed locally at each of the company's 112 settings. Each...
Half of the local authorities in Scotland claim they cannot afford to offer free school meals to all children aged four to seven from August 2010 in line with the Scottish Government's 50m a year...