Providing appropriate childcare for ethnic minority families remains an ideal that is poorly served in reality and often misunderstood by policymakers, says Wendy Wallace When Sister Joseph Harding...
Concerns about wide variations in the quality of candidates getting NVQs could increase with new funding methods, as Mary Evans reports National Vocational Qualifications were designed to equip the...
There are real benefits to using locally grown food all year round, as Snapdragons' Mary Llewellin explains.
Labour’s shadow health secretary has pledged to introduce an additional health check for babies, as part of the party's commitment to making Britain’s children the healthiest in the world.
Following on from NCFE's Spotlight report which highlighted a skills gap within the workforce, its sector manager for education and childcare, Janet King argues that the sector need to be...
The Government's focus on improving Britain's performance while also cutting costs could be leading us towards a crisis in childcare where true quality is sacrificed, says Pat Gordon-Smith.
Early years settings in Ireland are being stretched to breaking point due to increased running costs and inadequate state funding, while staff are exiting the sector en masse.
A two-year-old girl has died after choking on a sausage during lunch at a nursery.