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The Labour party has released research into the cost of childcare in local areas showing huge variations across the country.
Practitioners from a range of childcare and early years education settings had an unprecedented chance last week to question children's minister Margaret Hodge about Government policy at a round table...
A Swedish woman of 104 received a letter, addressed to her 'guardian', inviting her to apply for nursery school in the Autumn. Authorities had assumed Lisa Heuren was born in 2002 and not 1902,...
The protests about the introduction of the nursery education grant Code of Practice are gathering force, particularly in Kent, where nursery and pre-school owners are holding meetings, alerting the...
If you were one of the nearly seven million people who watched the BBC1 documentary 'Nurseries Undercover' last week, you will no doubt be appalled at the bad practice revealed and worried that...
Going to the shop may be an everyday experience, but if planned correctly a group visit can be beneficial for children. Penny Tassoni explains what practitioners need to consider
Childminders should be counted in the Scottish Executive's childcare census, claims the Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA). The SCMA says the 2002 Pre-school and Daycare Census (News, 19...
The call by Alan Bentley, chairman of nursery group Childcare Corporation, for the private nursery sector to form a new trade association to represent its interests may seem to have come out of the...
Winter is here and the nights are long - a time when nannying at night sounds rather cosy (see this month's feature on specialising in just that). But as we draw indoors our thinking and feelings turn...
By Nathan Archer, consultant at the children's house consultancy While the development of children's centres is broadly welcomed, we cannot lose sight of the effect this initiative has on already...