The Government's target for six per cent of the childcare workforce to be men by 2004 has been described as 'bizarre' by the chief executive of the National Childminding Association. Gill Haynes made...
New research has found that the increase in nursery places in deprived areas is around one third lower than that in better-off parts of England. The findings are revealed in A more equal society?, a...
More than half (53%) of families interviewed for the Government's latest parent survey found it easy to pay for childcare costs, while one in five (22%) struggled.
Happy New Year, everybody. 2007 doesn't promise to be an easy year for those in early years education and childcare, but it should be an interesting one. We will see the Comprehensive Spending Review;...
A nursery chain has signed a 3.75m sale-and-leaseback deal on a state-of-the-art site.
Our great seminar 'Forest School: adventure, risk and learning' will give invaluable advice about this booming area of practice
Nurseries and childminders will have to show Ofsted that they are using the Early Years Pupil Premium to best effect.
The Government has been forced to go back on its target for halting child obesity by 2010 as new figures reveal that a quarter of children are obese when they start school.