Bright Horizons has bought nursery group kidsunlimited for 45m in a move that sees the second largest UK chain add 64 settings and a childcare voucher business.
Busy Bees has announced a new business partnership with Singapore-based company Temasek, in what is thought to be the biggest nursery investment deal of the year.
The management, engineering and development consultancy Mott MacDonald has been awarded the 4m contract to support the Government's rollout of childcare places for disadvantaged two-year-olds.
The early years sector has expressed further concern over the financial sustainability of settings as new figures reveal stagnant funding rates for most local authorities next year.
The attainment gap between rich and poor Reception-age children has stagnated for seven years, new analysis from the Education Policy Institute has found.
More than two million children are living in households that have cut back on food or heating because of a real-term freeze to child benefits.
Ten years on, Peers Early Education Partnership is leading the way in helping foster young children's development and parents' well-being, says Wendy Scott Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP), a...
In Oldham, a literacy programme that has helped families improve their home learning environment should stand them in good stead over lockdown. By Charlotte Goddard
A revised strategy to reduce child poverty is to be set out by the Department for Work and Pensions in response to recommendations made by the Govern- ment's child poverty tsar, Lisa Harker. Speaking...
Two hospital nurseries are to be closed on the grounds of increased running costs.