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Ask any nursery or pre-school manager what they dislike about their job and it's the bureaucracy and paperwork that usually top the list. Everybody accepts that a certain amount is necessary to...
Childminders should be left in no doubt about their importance to the Government's National Childcare Strategy after this week's announcement of a 20m scheme to support new entrants to the profession...
The frustration of English nursery owners over long delays in criminal records checks for new employees is evident. The situation in England looks to be not half so bad as that in Scotland, however...
Many nursery businesses, including some of the largest in the UK, have grown out of a parent's reaction to the lack of childcare available for their own family. Some nursery chains that started off...
Laing and Buison has pointed out two statistical errors in its Children's Nurseries 2004 report (News, 4 March). Philip Blackburn, senior economist at Laing and Buisson, said, 'The total capacity in...
I was appalled when I read the news about the Government allowing childminders to smack children and to smoke in front of children. I think that if the parents want their children smacked they should...
Congratulations to the nursery nurses of Hounslow, London, who have fought off the threat of cuts to their jobs in reception classes proposed by the council (see News, page 9). In the very short time...
One result of our society moving to a more service-based economy is that demand for childcare outside the traditional working day grows. A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that...