A report last week from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 'Around the Clock: Childcare Services at Atypical Times', looks at the problems of parents who need their children cared for outside of...
Have you been wanting to get out and stretch your legs in the countryside but thought it would be too difficult with children in tow? A series of walkers' guides has been designed with children in...
Thank you for printing the news story 'Ofsted advises staff leaving SARS areas' (8 May). I was one of 20 people to have returned recently from a two-week early years study tour to China. I was...
Those who lived through the bleak days of the Woodhead/Blunkett Education regime of the late 1990s scarcely imagined that early-years policy-making could be any more Dark-Aged, but in this respect the...
The Government is pressing ahead with a consultation on changes to childcare ratios in England, despite widespread opposition from early years providers and parents to the plans.
Ofsted spends six times as much on regulating and inspecting a childcare place with a childminder as it does on one at an early years setting, an analysis by Nursery World reveals.
The apprenticeship levy will worsen the North-South divide in training opportunities and jobs, a leading think-tank has warned.
A centre for playwork education and training is being planned in the east of England, covering a region roughly stretching from the Wash to the Thames and including Luton and Peterborough. The area is...
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