A factory, a former cinema and derelict farmland are among 14 sites designated for new neighbourhood nurseries with grants worth more than 1.2m from the New Opportunities Fund (NOF). Among the...
A children's centre is credited with being a driving force in the regeneration of a deprived area of Wales. Simon Vevers finds out why When the Integrated Children's Centre (ICC) in New Tredegar...
Does your team provide children and their families with a top-quality full daycare service? Make sure you enter Nursery World's Nursery of the Year Award 2006, sponsored by Morton Michel Insurance....
Nursery children's project on space took off to an unexpected destination. Margaret Metcalfe, teacher at Bensham Grove Community Nursery School, Gateshead, tells the story
Community nurseries may be privatised by Newcastle City Council, after the local authority interpreted the Childcare Act as a duty to manage rather than provide even long-established childcare...
Staff and children at a Glasgow nursery that was gutted by fire have been temporarily relocated to a nearby primary school until the facility is restored and reopened after the summer holidays. Head...
A national framework was launched by the Government last week for 150 local authority-led programmes of change in the delivery of children's services. The framework, which is designed to create a...
Childcare is now seen as equally essential to the functioning of a community as energy, according to a leading property expert, fuelling an ‘unprecedented’ boom in investment from across the globe.
Proposals to enable schools to offer multiple services for children of all ages were unveiled in the Government's Education Bill last week. Under the proposed legislation, the governing body of a...
Pre-five and primary school services across Glasgow are set to be redesigned in a 50m investment plan. The money will create nine new primary schools, each with its own pre-five facilities, which will...