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Children from disadvantaged families are an average of ten months behind those from the middle classes in terms of cognitive development at the age of three, according to a new study.
The Co-operative Childcare is looking for an independent chairperson with experience of early years.
The Pen Green Centre is to set up a national network of Early Years Training Centres, run by outstanding children's centres and nursery schools, after being awarded Government funding of 369,000.
The National eCAF system which allows practitioners to electronically create, store and share a child's details under the Common Assessment Framework, could be scrapped if local councils do not...
By Liz Bayram, chief executive of the National Childminding Association Ofsted released its Annual Report this week and, for the first time, early years settings, including registered childminders,...
The sector has expressed concern that the DfE is pressing ahead with plans for a Reception Baseline check following the news that NFER has been chosen to design and deliver the assessment.
Working families will be hit hardest by the welfare and benefit cuts announced in the emergency budget and spending review, suffering a loss of around 9.4 billion, says the Trades Union Congress.
A new Government-funded organisation is aiming to co-ordinate research and knowledge on children and families to help the children's sector improve outcomes.
A children’s charity committed to improving the lives of children and their families in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, has been honoured with a Queens Award for Voluntary Service (QAVS) for its work...
The owner of a day nursery in Co Limerick has been fined IR5,000 for contravening Ireland's childcare regulations and ordered to close the setting within 14 days. Last week at Limerick District Court...