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The Liberal Democrats are calling for daycare providers to open for longer hours, as increasingly atypical working patterns are making it difficult for parents to access their childcare entitlement.
Everyday play provides plenty of chances to learn number skills. But it doesn't just have to be through tangible objects, says Jane Drake Counting, and use of numbers as labels, constitutes one strand...
Parents in Sweden are now free to name their newborns Budweiser or Metallica, following a relaxation in laws that banned naming children after fast-food chains, rock bands or brands of beer, according...
EU member states will fail to meet their childcare provision targets, a group of European business organisations and unions has warned.
Sue Cowley has a few questions she wants to put to Sam Gyimah about his Policy Exchange speech
A nursery where a baby choked to death on a piece of apple has received an inadequate rating by Ofsted for the second time in just over a year.
Proof of the strength of feeling against Key Stage 1 SATs has come in a survey for the National Union of Teachers (see News, page 9). More than nine out of ten teachers say they would support a...
A Glasgow-based nursery chain has introduced a 'mini day' initiative to help parents who do not need full-time daycare but want childcare provision that fits around school hours.
It's been quite a week, with the Children's Workforce Strategy consultation finally being unleashed, along with the Ofsted consultation on further changes to early years inspections (see News). Oh,...
A leading academic has claimed that the Government's policy of allowing childcare provision to be driven by market forces has led to appalling standards in some private nurseries in deprived areas.