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This week, the Department for Children, Schools and Families closed its 'Future Approach to Fees and Subsidies' consultation, which proposes increasing the annual fees for childminders on the Early...
Primary school children's test scores reveal a lot about the UK, says Alan Bentley.
Nurseries, childminding groups and pre-schools are invited to register for the I CAN Chatterbox Challenge 2014.
Despite the achievement of the current UK Government in reducing child poverty levels during the first part of the last decade, and introducing fiscal programmes to help low-income families, child...
The case of Sharon Coleman, the mother of a disabled child who took a legal case to Europe to establish that she herself was protected from disability discrimination, has had a lot of coverage in the...
We need to learn to let the children speak first, says Julian Grenier.
This is not the best way to safeguard, says Childcare Corporation chairman Alan Bentley.
Hard times call for new ways to motivate staff, says Alan Bentley.
The need for good speaking, listening and communication skills in the early years has, rightly, shot up the agenda in recent years, with the Bercow Report and the Every Child a Talker programme.
The Vetting and Barring Scheme was introduced to raise the levels of protection for all children in our society. Yet the provisions of the scheme still allow for significant discrepancies, according...