As nursery owners in England gear up to reopen from 1 June, an online conference run by Famly, with Nursery World as media partner, has pulled together expert advice on key questions.
Children’s mental health services are ‘buckling under pressure’ in the wake of the pandemic, says Anne Longfield’s Commission on Young Lives, which calls on the two Conservative leadership candidates...
A new report looking at ways to reform childcare recommends staff: child ratios be relaxed further than the proposed 1:5 in 'good' and 'outstanding' nurseries and suggests childminder agencies take on...
MPs have urged school reform minister Nick Gibb to give parents of summer-born children a right of appeal if their requests for a later school start are turned down.
A partnership between LEYF and food charity, City Harvest, which provides surplus food to the social enterprises’ settings to fund additional hours for disadvantaged children, is being expanded.
What are the 20 largest nursery chains in the UK up to? Alison Mercer on who did what in the past six months. Since summer 2001, when we first compiled our league table of the 20 largest nursery...
Labour is launching a programme of early years events, as part of what it is calling ‘a big conversation’ to talk to childcare providers and families.
The latest Ofsted results for children's centres suggest that performance is poor in comparison to other types of childcare provision. Gabriella Jozwiak investigates the facts behind the figures.
The number of children eligible for the early years pupil premium has risen to 116,500, the highest on record, reveal national statistics.