There is wide speculation that children and families minister Sarah Teather is being replaced by David Laws in the cabinet reshuffle.
Users of playgroups and other forms of voluntary childcare provision across the UK are urged to nominate their setting for the Queen's Golden Jubilee Award 2004, which recognises and rewards...
Primary school education has come under scrutiny from two major reviews - but why do they reach such different conclusions? Dame Gillian Pugh explains the Cambridge outlook.
The OECD has welcomed the expansion of 30 hours of funded childcare but urged governments to do more to improve access to quality provision for disadvantaged children.
More than 1,500 complaints from parents about childcare provision have been logged by Ofsted's Early Years Directorate in its first four months of operation. Maggie Smith, chief executive of the...
Child safety campaigners across the UK have condemned moves in Scotland to reject plans to ban the smacking of toddlers. The Scottish Parliament's Justice 2 Committee published a report last Friday...
Scotland’s nurseries and schools will stay closed until at least the end of January.
Men know their place, and up to now it hasn't been in childcare. But, asks Wendy Wallace, can a Government drive persuade more men to take up a career in the early years sector? The recent success of...