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As providers increasingly move to charging parents of disadvantaged two-year-olds for ‘extras’, one local authority body has recommended settings refrain from doing so.
School meals are to receive a 280m funding boost to improve quality over the next three years, most of which will go directly to schools and local education authorities to ensure they spend a minimum...
* The Trades Union Congress has called for Regional Development Agencies in England to make locally-available childcare 'a higher priority' because of the important role childcare plays in boosting...
Further to the news story 'Council fails in planning inquiry' (7 August), as a local resident and one of the complainants I want to stress that we are not 'anti-nursery'. This is simply the wrong...
(Photograph) - Children at The Orchard Nursery in Edinburgh enjoy football coaching with a difference with the Play2Learn approach, which uses story-based games to develop sports skills. A 'deep sea...
The extension of the nursery education grant for three- and four-year-olds, from 33 to 38 weeks a year from 1 April, should, on the face of it, be good news for non-maintained providers. But examine...
The early years landscape is changing fast, with the past few years seeing the introduction of free nursery education for three-and four-year-olds, the Foundation Stage, Sure Start, and the Early...
Nannies with an interest in caring for children with special needs can receive relevant news in the online newsletter of special needs agency Snap Childcare. The spring issue features the sponsored...
Local authorities have been accused of dull, unimaginative playgrounds because of an over-reliance on an identical 'KFC' approach ('kit, fence and carpet'), which has grown out of the pressure to...