'It is high time that education was taken out of the political arena. If politicians at both local and national level want to create a quality society in which we all feel secure and successful,...
(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...
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, under the Conservatives there would be a real-term fall in school spending, while the benefit of Labour's childcare expansion would be modest.
(Photograph) - Early years settings from around the country have been sending us scenes of how they greeted the new season All tools came in handy (left) when Nicole Francescantonio, six, Gabriel...
'Never before have we had this level of violence in schools... Teachers are asking whether they have the right to refuse to teach these children. Sadly we don't, no matter how obnoxious they are.'...
'What sort of country are we that pays the people who look after our children at this most delicate and important stage 7,000 a year? We must as a Government do something to raise the level of...
'The tragedy of this week's fudge is that we shall still be debating in a year's time whether seven-year-olds should be the only children of this age in the Western world to face tests, rather than...
* Jackie Nunns, chief executive of the out-of-school services Trojans scheme, has been shortlisted for the South London Press and Shell 'Our Heroes Community Champion' award 2005. She was nominated by...
More than 350,000 children will lose their free school meals because of Government changes to the welfare system, according to a new study.
'We're very concerned about kids playing with roller skates, micro scooters or skateboards anywhere near roads, never mind hanging on the back of cars.' Jane Eason, Royal Society for the Prevention of...