Local authority budget pressures are leading to children’s playgrounds being closed in Nottingham, with the Association of Play Industries (API) warning that more areas could be affected if the...
The numbers of settings working with vulnerable twos is on the rise, but what are the challenges faced by these children and their families, and what approaches should the early years sector employ...
With just ten days until the election, we take a look at the parties’ pledges for early years, education and families (the SNP and UKIP had not released a manifesto when we went to press).
A further 2.4m is to be spent on training for the childcare workforce, education minister Cathy Jamieson has revealed. 'To allow for further expansion and development of the early years workforce I am...
(Photograph) - Pupils belonging to the school council at Oyster Park Infants School in Ferry Fryston in Yorkshire saw how the grown-ups do it at a council meeting at Wakefield County Hall on 21...
Delays may affect applications for the new Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit received by the Inland Revenue after 31 January this year. A spokesperson for the Inland Revenue said it was making...
Councils in England are to be banned from placing homeless families in bed and breakfast accommodation for more than six weeks. The ban, which comes into force from next April, is the result of new...
Day nursery businesses performed well during the past year with solid trading results, according to an analysis by corporate agents Christie & Co.
The popularity of breakfast and after-school clubs is swelling the rise in the use of formal childcare, according to Government-commissioned research.
Annabelle Padwick is the founder of Life at No27, a non-profit organisation using plant-growing sessions in nurseries and schools to support children struggling with loneliness and mental and physical...