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More than 40 MPs are backing a call for a review of the new funding rules for the nursery education grant. Shadow education secretary Maria Miller tabled an Early Day Motion two weeks ago calling for...
Bought the Just Learning nursery in Cambourne where a ten-month-old child choked to death in 2006 and which closed down in the wake allegations made in a BBC 'Whistleblower' programme, (News, 28...
A ‘culture of mistrust towards families and children’ in prisons is harming children’s ability to form attachments with their parents, Barnardo’s has said.
What are local authorities doing to resist the pressure to close children's centres - and why do they consider it important? Melanie Defries reports.
The campaign to raise nursery nurses' wages took a further step this week as Unison Scotland submitted the same pay claim to all Scotland's local authorities. The union put in its claim to 32 councils...
A coalition of children’s sector organisations is calling on the Chancellor to use his Spending Review, next week, to provide ‘much-needed' cross-Government investment in babies, children and young...
Further pressure is being piled on the coalition Government in advance of the review of the free entitlement code of practice, with the release of a survey by the feisty Save Our Nurseries campaign.
The upcoming review of the Early Years Foundation Stage needs to look carefully at worldwide studies of effective pre-school approaches, says Oli de Botton of the CfBT Education Trust.
Kicking off a new series exploring the revised Development Matters guidance, Dr Julian Grenier looks at the first two key features of effective practice within the document: ‘The best for every child’...
The different aspects of a new early years guidance document for Scotland are weighed up by consultant and trainer Ann Langston.