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The Government is being urged to ‘think carefully’ about how to support parents who need help with childcare costs as research highlights how current policies support a minority of families.
The debacle in the childcare tax credit system could lead to an overhaul of how providers are paid, says Simon Vevers Designed to lift families out of poverty and give them a helping hand into...
Better communication between children's services professionals is vital in order to bring a greater clarity to their work. Jackie Cosh looks at the impact of CAF The Common Assessment Framework (CAF)...
Children's professionals and trade unions have rejected calls for the MMR jab to be made compulsory for all children under five.
A Kent nursery is being investigated by Ofsted and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) as the possible source of a local salmonella outbreak that has affected 149 children. Cannock House Day Nursery in...
Government plans to use synthetic phonics as the only method of teaching reading have been criticised by a leading educational psychologist, who warns that rather than fostering a love of books this...
A nursery nurse who broke the arm of a child in her care has been given a 15-month prison sentence suspended for two years. Helen Lamb was also ordered to pay 1,500 compensation to the 20-month-old...
As one of the people who objected to the proposals for Expert Support for the Foundation Stage (News, 22 August), and answered 'no' to all the questions, I am surprised at the apparently positive...
Plans to turn primary and secondary schools in England into 'community centres' which will include nurseries for children up to the age of four have met with a mixed response from early years...
Phonics is currently the subject of my dissertation for my early years degree. I have used a collection of ways to introduce phonics to a small group of six children working within the Foundation...