Mothers are losing more than a billion pounds in earnings every year because a lack of high-quality, affordable childcare prevents them from working or increasing their hours, finds a charity.
Childcare providers will have the right to ask schools to let them use their buildings to run out-of-school care on school sites, under plans announced by David Cameron.
Executive functions play an important role in early maths, says Rosemary O’Connor, from a University of Oxford team who have developed a programme to embed these crucial mental skills into fun maths...
Nursery World is looking ahead to 2010 and asking the early years workforce to fill in our <a href="http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB229Z4KNGMCD">survey</a> about the challenges of what is sure to...
Free early years education for all one- and two-year-olds and year-round wraparound childcare for low-income households are part of the SNP’s pledges set out in its election manifesto today (15...
Sheffield City Council is proposing closing some of its children's centres and ceasing funding for childcare providers as it looks at ways to save 3.5m to deliver the free childcare places for...
Researchers have backed a ‘cautious approach’ to the reopening of childcare settings as new findings suggest children infected with Covid-19 carry a larger virus load and are more likely to spread the...
According to the latest data from the Department for Education, the percentage of children qualifying for free school meals has risen from 20.8 per cent last year to 22.5 per cent this year.
The timing of the Government's review into nursery milk during the summer holidays could limit opportunities for early years settings and schools to consult on the scheme, says the School and Nursery...
The children’s minister has vowed to look again at the percentage of early years funding that local authorities are allowed to keep back from providers in the Early Years Funding Formula.