Private childcare providers face confusion over whether they need to register with Disclosure Scotland, the new police checks organisation, to access criminal records information about potential...
Out-of-school clubs have been experiencing the same delays in getting police checks for staff under the new Criminal Records Bureau as nurseries. At present 103,000 applications are falling outside...
With the news that the UK has lost its measles-free status, Katy Morton looks at which vaccinations children require and when
The number of primary school classes in the five-to seven-year-old range with more than 30 pupils has risen, according to new figures from the DfES. However, since last year the number of support...
Children used our photo competition to show what childcare means to them, says Liz Roberts Asking children to take photographs of their favourite things about childcare yielded some fascinating...
Helen Garnett explores the role of early years education in preventing violence against women and girls
The true scale of the funding shortfall for childcare places in the early years sector is revealed in new research from the Pre-School Learning Alliance. Ruth Thomson takes a look at the numbers.