Community nurseries may be privatised by Newcastle City Council, after the local authority interpreted the Childcare Act as a duty to manage rather than provide even long-established childcare...
I feel that even raising the issue of allowing childminders to smack children is a backwards step. No matter what the environment is, educators need to be consistent. Since there is a no-smacking...
Nine innovative childcare projects in Northern Ireland were last week awarded grants of more than 400,000 by the New Opportunities Fund under its Building Quality Childcare programme. The projects...
Nurseries in the area around Soham are helping children and parents deal with their grief and fears following the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman and the massive publicity around the case.
Nurseries across Scotland have been warned to be on their guard following bogus calls from a company claiming they owe it hundreds of pounds for educational publications. Laura Fraser, owner of Rowan...
Araft of new measures that will significantly extend access to tax breaks for employer-supported childcare across the UK has been proposed by the Treasury.
The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) is one of ten charities to receive funding from the Department for Work and Pensions to develop a family sign language curriculum that will help parents...
Students are being urged to pay almost 500 for a childcare course that is neither accredited by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) nor recognised under the daycare regulations....
It doesn’t make sense for policy-makers to consistently ignore the latest research about the early years when formulating strategy.