Family First, the fourth largest group in the UK, has acquired nursery group Kids Play to take it to 100 settings.
If it's been on your to-do list, and even if it hasn't, don't worry – there's still time to enter this year's Nursery World Awards and claim your place in the spotlight!
The under-threes provision at Broomhall Nursery School in Sheffield, due for closure, has been saved by parents.
A government-funded study published days after the Prime Minister pledged to roll out parenting classes to all, has reported the scheme will fail without proper financial backing.
Now's the time to go out on a leaf hunt and discover how many areas for learning they can lead you to. Try starting with these ideas from Carole Skinner, Fran Mosley and Sheila Ebbutt.
Few of the members of the two new bodies with responsibility for regulating all Scottish childcare services and staff announced earlier this month have any background in daycare. Nine people have been...
Elizabeth Truss has written to councils in England to encourage them to talk to existing childcare providers, including schools, about how they could provide more affordable and flexible childcare.
'Rubbish pay. Rubbish holidays. Very long hours and a lot of work to do for only 5.20 an hour.' Nursery nurse, private day nursery, earning 8,501-10,500 a year
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell sees implications for children in the current conflicts between cultures Children may not appear to be adversaries in the extraordinary global eruption of...