<P> The relationship between private and voluntary childcare providers and childcare partnerships still needs work in some areas, a year-long Scottish Executive-funded research project has concluded....
Edited extracts from the Government's response to the consultation on the Early Years Foundation Stage reveal the sector's concerns and the actions to be taken Responses to the consultation...
Changes are afoot for Scottish nurseries with business rates exemption coming in from 1 April and the increase to 1140 hours by 2020
The first Children's Commissioner for Wales, Peter Clarke, took up his post on St David's Day, 1 March. Mr Clarke's brief is to promote and safeguard the rights and welfare of children and young...
(Photograph) - Television personality and mother of three Carol Smillie teamed up with children from Beech Drive Nursery at Belahouston Park in Glasgow to get into training for this year's Barnardo's...
(Photograph) - Isabel Armand stands beside sunflowers grown by her home in the Niassa Province of Mozambique, one of the regions benefiting from the work of WaterAid. The charity has teamed up for...
Glasgow city council predicted last week that more than 60 striking nursery nurses would return to work from 1 June and that more than 90 of the 127 local authority nurseries would be operating. At a...
Our new, seven-part series aims to provide a comprehensive guide to how nurseries can prepare for - and what they can expect from - the new regime.
In this new four-part series on what the new Children and Social Work Act means for the early years sector, we look at changes to the local safeguarding procedures. By Ann Marie Christian