Samantha Cullinane (Letters, 30 August) talks of the terrible treatment of students in day nurseries, and how they are often left to do the uninteresting tasks and are not encouraged to join in with...
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,...
The Department for Education has provided more information about how the new childminder agencies will operate, saying that agency childminders will be able to decide whether they are self-employed or...
An online conference run by Famly, with Nursery World as media partner, will be broadcast on 16 June, two weeks on from the date that many settings in England reopened their doors.
All three- and four-year-olds in Scotland can now claim 1140 hours of free early learning and childcare.
Parents need support right from the start, argues Javed Khan
Promoting your nursery business isn't an expensive luxury - it's a necessity, and costs less than you think, says Annette Rawstrone.
A YouTube video of astronaut Tim Peake has revealed which salad rocket seeds planted by UK children actually went into space as part of the national Rocket Science experiment – the seeds in the blue...
The pre-school movement is staging a comeback with moves to empower parents and extend services. Catherine Gaunt reports on its new campaign Throughout its 40-year history, the pre-school movement has...
Will Universal Credit make parents paying for childcare better or worse off if they increase their hours, asks David Finch at the Resolution Foundation