Childminders and local authority nurseries have come top for quality in the Scottish care sector, according to the Care Commission's new grading scheme.
The increase to ‘free’ entitlements is likely to be welcomed by parents, but the early years sector and Institute for Fiscal Studies question the practicalities and purpose. By Catherine Gaunt
Use our directory to help you access the many short courses and workshops designed to keep early years professionals up to the minute with good practice across all aspects of provision from management...
Nurseries can now tender for the School Direct programme, an initiative to train Early Years Teachers by giving nurseries more control over the training of their workforce.
Comforting rhymes, charming illustrations and gentle humour guarantee the appeal of new books to share with the youngest children, reviewed here by Alison Boyle TIME FOR BED, AND PLAYING. written by...
The Education Committee has today (15 December) launched a new inquiry into the affordability of childcare and early years education.
Why is inequality an important subject to tackle and what are our attitudes to it, asks Mary Dickins in the first of a four-part series
I am incensed by Lynne Oates' comments about private providers who only run nurseries to make money (Letters, 24 February). If I had wanted to make money, the last thing I would have done was to open...
The Charity Commission has issued fresh child protection guidelines for all charities working with children, following its appointment of a receiver and manager to take over a Windsor-based charity...