Almost half of parents will have to take unpaid leave during the summer due to a lack of availability of childcare and ‘soaring’ costs as fees rise by 5 per cent in a year, reveals new research.
Mary Evans gives a round-up of the training schemes on offer from the leading early years organisations Early years organisations across the country offer innumerable training courses, seminars and...
‘Babies’ have been strapped to five out of 100 statues in Crosby today in a stunt to represent the 5 per cent of dads who access shared parental leave, a policy which the campaign group behind the...
This year's Excellence in Childcare Awards, run by Kids' Clubs Network with Nursery World and Prima magazines and sponsored by Sure Start, brings you the unsung heroes who have shaped the childcare...
Steve Taylor, owner of Winchcombe Farm Day Nursery in Warwickshire sets out 10 facts that parents need to know about 30 hours 'free' childcare
Childminders in England have welcomed the Government's decision to change the law and forbid them from smacking children in their care and smoking in their presence.
<P> The use of outdoor areas is the most critical issue in implementing the Foundation Stage, according to a survey of an education union's members working in primary schools. </P>
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...
Practioners caring for under-threes are being issued with new guidance from the Government.
Key Stage 1 teachers will be breathing a sigh of relief that the SATs period is finally over for another year. But there is a growing lobby of educationalists and early years specialists calling for...