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...
WINNER: Birth to Five Service, Lincolnshire County Council
More than one in 20 children are sleeping on the floor because they don’t have a bed of their own, according to findings from a survey by children’s charity Barnardo’s.
The economic incentives offered to encourage mothers to return to work ignore the parent's crucial role in the early years, Sally Goddard Blythe believes
The recent 20th anniversary of Sure Start, which evolved into Children’s Centres, is a reminder of what we are at risk of losing
A nursery is to open in the premises of a Sure Start Children's Centre that is due to move.
Childminding networks in England have been successful in contributing to the quality of childcare, supporting childminders, raising their status and improving retention rates, according to a report...