The success of the free nursery education scheme for two-year-olds could depend on nurseries working together with local authorities and other early years providers. Karen Faux hears from those who...
A series of consultation events on children's play are being staged around England by the Department for Education and Skills and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. The events in Halifax (7...
Staff are poorly paid, settings heavily reliant on Government funding are worse off financially, and qualification levels looks to be falling, finds Ceeda’s first About Early Years survey
A playwork specialist who admitted making nearly 400 pictures of child pornography has been given a six-week jail sentence.
The Government's aim of having every early years practitioner qualified to at least Level 3 by 2015 is looking far from achievable, given the funding crisis for childcare work-based courses and...
Nursery World wishes to make it clear that while examples of bad practice in beacon schools were cited by some delegates at a National Campaign for Nursery Education conference in London last month,...
Despite all the progress that has been made under the National Childcare Strategy in the past decade, the aim of offering high-quality, accessible, affordable childcare to every parent who wants it...