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'The children who walk the road to Holy Cross are groomed, consciously or not, for news bulletins and paraded for the cameras. See their misery. Study the terror that the spitters, the screamers, the...
Seven children's centres in Stoke-on-Trent have been saved from the axe following local opposition to council proposals to close them.
Many lessons can be learned from the approach by Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLP) to governance when developing children's centres, according to a report commissioned by the DfES. Drawing on...
Omega 3 fish oil supplements will not be given to schoolchildren following inconclusive results from a review by the Food Standards Agency. The FSA examined five studies of the effect Omega 3...
Julie Haynes, former nursery manager at Just Learning in Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, has asked Nursery World to point out that she resigned from her job due to ill health and not because of the...
After a year of relatively little activity in terms of nursery group acquisitions and mergers, 2006 has finished with a definite bang - witness the 70m sale of Busy Bees to the Australian giant ABC...
Regarding paying child benefit (News, 14 December) before the birth of a child, this will in no way help people on low incomes who are claiming any other benefit, such as jobseekers' allowance or...
'Childcare is an issue in a changing society. If you want the manpower, you should be obliged to provide support. If the Government isn't going to take responsibility, the employers should - they're...
In response to 'Anger over council terms' (News, 22 June), I should like to add my thoughts, which include 'frustration' and 'fatigue'. Hertfordshire, our local authority, currently passes on 8 per...
As Nursery World reaches the grand old age of 80, the early years education and childcare sector is at a crucial point in its development. The Ten-Year Strategy is rolling out, the Childcare Bill has...