Moving away from the deficit model of difference means more than enabling diversity, so that everyone feels genuinely included, says our regular columnist Michael Pettavel
A leading childcare and nanny agency says it has seen a 60 per cent increase in the number of families seeking after-school care over the past year.
Dr Eunice Lumsden gives her views on the recent London School of Economics research, which found that graduates have little impact on children's outcomes
Young children will love playing with dragons without thinking them scary or real, using these activities from Helen Shelbourne Dragons are the subject of countless ancient myths and legends but are...
'This is a very useful next step in the Government's childcare strategy. It tightens up lots of gaps in the rules that parents have been worried about' Anne Longfield, director of 4Children, on plans...
'Partnership as a form of government, particularly when the partnership is encouraged by the Government to distance itself from its accountable body, is not good government.' John Sinnott, chief...
''I did not come into politics to be the King Herod of the Labour party' Home secretary David Blunkett on the Government's proposal to take into care the children of asylum seekers who refuse to leave...
This year's Excellence in Childcare Awards, run by Kids' Clubs Network with Nursery World and Prima magazines, saw even more inspiring good practice in childcare. Anne Wiltsher reports Playworker of...
'David Blunkett has presided over a set of initiatives that has wasted taxpayers' money, distracted teachers from their real responsibilities and encapsulated the worst of the discredited ideology...
(Photograph) - Champion childminders of 2000 Patricia Heard from Essex (left) and Joanne Coles from Stockton-on-Tees (right) were congratulated by broadcaster and writer Claire Rayner as they picked...