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The provision of grants to place qualified teachers in early years settings in the Welsh voluntary sector was announced last week by education minister Jane Davidson. As part of the Welsh Foundation...
The news that neither early years nor playwork have succeeded in their bids to be one of the trailblazer Sector Skills Councils (see page 4) is not a terribly encouraging start to the new year, when...
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More than 500 childcare places are to disappear with the demise of Scottish chain KidCare and the BBC's decision to phase out its workplace nurseries (see News, page 4). The two events, while...
The Nursery World Show 2010 last weekend was a fantastic occasion, with the stands bustling and the seminars packed out with visitors eager to hear from leading experts in the early years sector (full...
Play programmes are to benefit from 67.5m in grants from the Big Lottery Fund under the 124m Children's Play initiative.
What with all the warnings about global recession, credit crunch and financial meltdown, it's somewhat unexpected for Nursery World to be able to report that things appear to be looking up for the...
The National Day Nurseries Association flagship in Grantham has been re-inspected and judged 'satisfactory', following an unannounced Ofsted inspection last October which found it to be 'inadequate'...
The UK childcare industry attracted a revenue of Pounds 2.8bn in 1999, the latest figure available, according to financial news service Bloomberg. The figure, from market researcher Key Note, reflects...
The controversial ContactPoint database will be shut down on 6 August, children's minister Tim Loughton has confirmed.