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Two partnerships have been singled out for praise for making good links with their local Jobcentres. In the winter issue of the Department for Education and Skills magazine, Childcare and Early Years,...
I am surely not the only reader who was disappointed when I saw the photograph of motivational wristbands marketed as 'Reward Bands' (News, 7 September). Opinions differ with regard to the use of...
Play and music therapy will form part of a package of support to help adopted children bond with their families.
Some interesting issues are raised by the guidance on developing children's centres which has just been published by the Sure Start unit (see News, page 4). Not least is the expectation that more than...
There was so much to see, hear, taste and talk about at the Nursery World Show 2011.
New analysis by the Labour party reveals local authority spending on children and young people's services has fallen by nearly £1 billion a year in real terms since 2012.
Of all the areas of childcare, it is probably childminding that has changed the most over the years since the National Childcare Strategy was introduced. And it is the childminding networks that have...
More than 500 nursery teachers and parents gathered at a rally in Glasgow on Saturday to protest against council plans to axe nursery school teachers' jobs. Under measures for next year's budget,...
Cuts to central funding could threaten the long-term sustainability of voluntary sector childcare organisations, Nursery World can reveal. The news came to light after the Department for Education and...
The troublesome introduction of the new code of practice on the nursery education grant seems to have reached a messy deadlock, with private and voluntary providers continuing to protest, the...