Parents at a Huddersfield nursery school threatened with closure have collected over 1,000 signatures calling for a reprieve.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, the second largest nursery chain in the UK, has bought Teddies Nurseries, creating the largest network of childcare settings in Britain.
A children's centre attached to a primary school in north London is among the latest settings to close amid swine flu fears.
Children's secretary Ed Balls has written to Ofsted proposing an end to regulating reciprocal childcare arrangements between friends.
Teaching assistants who are worried about job security should consider a career in playwork, according to SkillsActive.
A body tasked with setting pay and conditions for early years and school support staff in the maintained sector was made statutory on Monday when it received Royal Assent.
The first months of existence of Ofsted's Early Years Directorate have been plagued by technical hitches with its telephone and computer systems. Some callers to Ofsted's helpline number have been...
Mothers who return to work before their child's first birthday do not harm their development, new research suggests.
A nursery in Essex is taking the unusual step of freezing its fees from the day a child starts at the nursery until they go to school.
Ofsted is expanding its curriculum unit to include two new leads for early education.