Officials from the Department for Education are investigating concerns that the practice of charging parents top-up fees for the free entitlement for nursery education continues to be widespread.
New initiatives are bringing together expertise from the health service, early years sector and care in an effort to improve provision for children. Katy Morton investigates.
Amajor review of the national occupational standards that underpin training in early years care and education across the UK is to be undertaken by the National Day Nurseries Association. NDNAtraining...
Ateam of academics from Edinburgh University have given the early intervention programme in Scotland the thumbs-up - and have praised nursery nurses and classroom assistants for their contribution....
Free face-to-face training in autism will soon be available to early years practitioners and post-16 educational professionals through a network of hub organisations, appointed as part of the latest...
21 FEBRUARY. 'Law in Action'. (BBC Radio 4, 4 to 4.30pm). A quarter of American children and six out of ten Americans are overweight.
The Government has recently announced a raft of initiatives targeted at closing the disadvantage gap in the early years. Hannah Crown disentangles them
Charity 4Children is calling for schools to remain open during the summer to provide much needed holiday childcare.