One of the UK's largest nursery chains, Nord Anglia, said last week that it is reviewing its procedures after secret television footage filmed at one of its nurseries revealed severe breaches of care...
The Government will legislate to ensure that adoptions are not being delayed due to problems matching prospective adopters with the same ethnic background as the child.
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...
The Childcare Act (2006) has provided the first legislative underpinning for the rights of young children. The right to an integrated, quality, play-based framework for development and learning from...
I note the plethora of letters, and the column by Alan Bentley ('To the point', 19 July), all bemoaning the failings of the Nursery Education Grant.
The Red House Children's Book Award is the only major award voted entirely for by children. This year 25,000 children across the UK took part in the judging through book groups organised by the...
* Jennifer Brice, 42, was a full-time mother of five until she embarked on a DCE course at Barnet College, north London, almost two years ago. She hopes it will provide a route back into employment,...
An alarming drop in childminding has prompted two studies into the people who do the job, as Ann Mooney reports In the past five years the number of childminders in England has dropped by 30 per cent...
Can local authorities plan integrated early years services in the face of a profusion of new Government policies? Simon Vevers reports The Government extolled the virtues of service integration in its...
The EYFS is being judged before it is implemented, says Jeanne Barczewska, early years lecturer and consultant The recent extremely reactionary articles in the national press about the Early Years...