Nursery chain Kids Planet has secured a £10 million investment from BGF to open five new nurseries over the next two years across the North West.
There are some new faces in our Top 25 table of nursery groups this year, and in our extensive directory too. Catherine Gaunt analyses the latest moves in both size and quality of the chains.
Essential early years By Louise Dryden, Ruth Forbes, Penny Mukherji, Linda Pound
Ofsted will resume graded inspections of some registered early years providers from 4 May, it has confirmed today.
Children's creativity occurs in the creating, not the end product, Jennie Lindon advises Y oung children need time and space to develop the flair of creativity - an open-ended confidence that lets...
Smaller settings wishing to employ apprentices will have to pay just 10 per cent of the costs of training them, the Government has announced today.
This issue of Nursery Chains is published at a very interesting time for the groups of providers who are leading the way in the development of the private daycare sector. Our league table round-up...
If a bright idea brings benefits to one setting, you want to spread the word. Melanie Defries explains how some chains do just that.
New research published by the Child Poverty Action Group illustrates parents' growing struggle to provide a decent standard of living for their families in 2013.