Busy Bees, the UK's largest nursery group, has acquired the Just Learning chain of 71 settings, bringing the total number of places the group offers to more than 19,000.
Amid soaring temperatures around the UK, early years settings are deploying various methods to keeping cool.
Disadvantaged areas of England are to benefit from 40m of funding for new maintained nursery facilities for three-and four-year-olds, the education and skills secretary announced last week. Estelle...
Problems with the childcare tax credit need to be sorted out by the Inland Revenue if the childcare strategy is to succeed, the Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) has warned. <BR>
Just 3 per cent of early years providers failed their inspections in the past three years, Ofsted's children's director Michael Hart stressed in an exclusive interview with Nursery World as Ofsted...
Staff at a Lancashire nursery must wait until August to see if their 30 per cent pay rise is going to undermine existing jobs.
Better-off families are set to benefit from 30 hour childcare at the expense of poorer families, warns a new analysis by think tank CentreForum.
One MP's recent comments recall the age-old debate about the 'care' and 'education' of young children, says Michael Pettavel
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The four-year pay deal for Scotland's teachers has been criticised by union leaders representing striking nursery nurses. The award, announced last week and backdated to 1 April, is worth 10.4 per...