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As part of plans to lower the cost of childcare for parents and increase provision, the Government consultation launched today, plans to make it easier to become a childminder.
Ofsted’s annual report for 2020/21, published today, highlights the impact of the pandemic on children and staff working in early years, schools and colleges.
Supporting fragile families and the practitioners who work with them is vital to ensuring the best interests of children are met, writes Marion Dowling in the final instalment of this two-part...
Creating Scotland's first National Child Health Network to help disseminate research and information was discussed at a Children and Families conference in Stirling last week, organised by the Health...
As the Childcare Bill reaches its final stages in the House of Commons today, new analysis carried out for the Labour party claims there will be a shortfall of £480m on the Government’s 30-hour plan.
The priority for children with special educational needs must be ensuring that they receive the right support rather than inclusion in mainstream education at all costs, according to a report by the...
A proposal to provide a fixed fee state-subsidised childcare scheme for children under the age of three, based on a system operating in Quebec, Canada, has been unveiled by the Scottish National Party...
If Ofsted were truly independent, as it claims to be, then would it not be criticising an early years policy that is clearly failing children?
The Parenting Across Scotland project has been given 300,000 of funding by the Scottish Executive, allowing it to continue until 2007. The project is led by the charity Children 1st. and researches...
Encouraging parents to read to their children is just one aim of the National Year of Reading. Ruth Thomson talks to one nursery chain getting in on the act themselves.