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Many families across the UK are struggling financially, and the situation may be about to get worse – but nurseries are finding ways to offer practical support. Annette Rawstrone reports
Huge funding cuts to children's services being planned by a local authority could lead to the closure of 14 after-school clubs and 23 summer play schemes in deprived areas.
Whole families had fun working together at Oakwood House Nursery's first den-making festival in Huddersfield.
The Government has announced plans to increase child tax credits by 4 a week for parents of one- and two-year -olds from 2012 in today's budget.
Nannies and nanny agencies have not been invited by the Government to have their say about proposals that could radically affect their livelihoods from next year. The snub came last week in a...
The Government's 'cross-cutting' review of childcare policy which has finally been published makes for fascinating reading (see News, page 4), not least for the acknowledgement that 'important...
The news that neither early years nor playwork have succeeded in their bids to be one of the trailblazer Sector Skills Councils (see page 4) is not a terribly encouraging start to the new year, when...
More reassuring noises came from the Government in the past week about its continuing commitment to expanding childcare, as trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt took to the stage at the...
Children as young as eight canbe prescribed the anti-depressant Prozac, the European Medicines Agency said last week. But mental health experts said that it was vital that any use of the drug in...
Doctors and midwives are urging pregnant women to have their Covid-19 vaccination as soon as possible, following a rise in the number of unvaccinated women being admitted to hospital with severe...