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After years of campaigning by school support staff and their unions, education secretary Alan Johnson has essentially put the stamp of approval on the creation of a national pay structure (see News,...
Welcome to the new-look front section of Nursery World. We may have changed the front cover and the contents page, but inside you'll find the same great mix of news, views and features to help you do...
It was with a certain sense of dej... vu that I read about the bureaucratic chaos surrounding criminal record checks (News, 19 September). Some ten years ago, as a criminologist at Manchester...
Margaret Hodge's appointment as minister for children continued to attract a barrage of criticism last week from the press and opposition MPs (see News, page 4). One unfortunate consequence of the...
After many years of lobbying by childcare organisations, the Government's proposals to extend tax breaks for employer-supported childcare look set to make significant advances (see News, page 4). Tax...
It seems that getting the language of early years education and childcare right is a struggle for Government speech writers. Take education secretary Ruth Kelly's words to the IPPR last week (see...
The Government has been very keen to stress how important it is to listen to parents' views about smacking, and the results of various polls of the public are used to justify maintaining physical...
Great media prominence is being given to the Government's early childhood policy, with Penelope Leach's and Oxford University's recent research finding that, all other factors being equal, young...
Ofsted's first national analysis of childcare provision since taking over its inspection and regulation in September 2001 seems to show cause for optimism about quality, with improvements being made...
The comment in the news story 'Networks "a success story"' (20 November) about childminding networks in England needing to be approved by the National Childminding Association is misleading. For this...