A nanny who registered as a home carer and added other families to her employer's children tells Helen Kewley how she did it Alison Goddard gained her NNEB in 1994. After six years as a sole-charge...
The importance of early education for vulnerable children has been recognised in new draft guidance developed by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).
Action research projects in the outdoors can boost staff’s knowledge and enthusiasm for outside activities. Gabriella Jozwiak on being an advocate for learning outdoors
Modern Apprenticeship The Government has just relaunched the Modern Apprenticeship scheme, which it hopes will offer a combination of on-and off-the-job education and training to people aged 16 to 24...
Employers will welcome experienced childcarers who brush up their knowledge after time away from work, as Karen Faux hears.
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission have released research analysing the success of Start for Life services in six areas of England.
The introduction of the new child and working tax credits has been dogged with computer problems and delays. Mary Evans reports The Government's flagship policy to make work pay by helping around six...
More than 86 per cent of all three- and four-year-olds accessing the free entitlement are taking up the full 15-hour offer, according to the latest Government figures.
Manchester city council has confirmed that it will keep all its 39 children's centres open but will phase out daycare in centres.
UK policymakers need to look not only at another country's parental allowance, but at the reasons why it matters, says Peter Moss We hear a lot today about early childhood services in Sweden. But...