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Margaret Hodge has returned to the early years sector to find that the issue of low pay for childcare staff is still very much live and kicking. She was tackled about the problems during her speech to...
Employers like to talk serenely about 'work-life balance', but for many mothers combining a full-time job with having a family is an exhausting juggling act. For some nursery nurses, however, work and...
The Au Pair and Nanny's Guide to Working Abroad has proven such an indispensable handbook that it's just come out in its fifth edition. It's been updated to take account of internet job-hunting and...
You might not appreciate how much there is to know about nannying until you've seen The Nanny Handbook: The essential guide to being a nanny, by Teena Kamen. It has an accessible textbook style that...
The recent move by a primary school in south London to open a baby unit, funded and run by the school itself, raises quite a few issues, especially with current concerns about how local authorities...
With money from the Transformation Fund equating to 500 per worker in the early years sector, it is not going to achieve miracles (see News, page 4). However, there are some interesting suggestions in...
After a year of relatively little activity in terms of nursery group acquisitions and mergers, 2006 has finished with a definite bang - witness the 70m sale of Busy Bees to the Australian giant ABC...
As the days get longer and brighter, and spring is in the air, you could well start to notice that your setting is in need of sprucing up. Perhaps your paintwork is peeling, your carpet is wearing...
The number of children receiving pre-school education in Scotland grew by 6 per cent overall between January 2002 and January 2003, according to statistics published by the Scottish Executive last...
World leaders are being called on to invest more in the early years as new research shows less than 2 per cent of the global aid budget goes to pre-primary education.