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The Welsh Government has committed £60m to develop more early years provision ahead of the introduction of the 30 hours.
Poor-quality provision for under-fives has been identified in a 'significant minority' of cases by Osted inspections of independent schools in England, according to a report published last week by the...
This week's columnist Helen Penn looks at an oasis of good practice in a land of stark inequality I have been working in South Africa recently. It is a very unequal country, and nearly 10 million...
Ofsted's decision to publish inspection reports for childminders on the internet, but not to reveal their full addresses, seems to strike a good balance in terms of making information available...
The Pre-school Learning Alliance will be changing its name to the Early Years Alliance from next year as part of plans to re-brand.
I am in two minds over Ofsted's proposal to put information about childminders in England on the internet (News, 3 April). In one way, I don't agree with this, as it's important to protect the...
Further to the news story about the NSPCC's Full Stop campaign, (7 March), I would like to point out that childcare providers do indeed report instances of child abuse to the appropriate authorities....
1.5bn a year is a huge sum of money, and Gordon Brown's doubling of the childcare budget in last week's spending review is probably more than most interested parties had dreamed of (see News, page 4,...
Areas of rural isolation are set to benefit in the latest round of lottery funding for childcare places. The grants from the New Opportunities Fund (NOF), the National Lottery distributor, were...
The UK children's nurseries market has continued to expand despite the recession and was worth 4.1bn in 2008, with a 7.8 per cent year-on increase, according to market analysts Laing & Buisson.