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By Brian Cooper, owner of Meir Park Day Nursery in Stoke-on-Trent I am confused by the Government's approach to the subject of pay in early years, particularly in the private sector. The DfES (News,...
* Creative Education, the first nursery chain to float on the stock market, has made five further acquisitions. The company has bought three nurseries and a pre-preparatory school in Essex and a day...
As the nine to five working day becomes ever less common, the need grows for childcare in what used to be called unsocial hours. Evening work, night shifts, weekend work - parents who have little...
The National Day Nurseries Association has written to the chancellor and the education secretary calling for the Government to scrap business rates for nurseries in England.
Childcare business grants will be doubled and extended to settings that have been running less than a year.
Play policy has been taken forward around the UKwith the implementation of Scotland's first playwork and education strategy and the launch of a consultation into play policy by Northern Ireland's...
A new programme to develop and showcase good practice in children's centres has been launched by the children's services think-tank Capacity in collaboration with back-to-work programme Take Three...
A nursery owner in Cumbria has warned that another year of chaos in the criminal records check and childcare inspection systems will put providers under such stress that some will be unable to cope....
Anthea Thomas (Letters, 10 April) fails to see the true picture of how vulnerable childminders would be if Ofsted's plans to put their personal details on its website go ahead. With the Children's...