Early years providers want an overarching Children's Sector Skills Council to link early years with the sectors for health, young people, playwork and classroom assistants, according to a consultation...
The new children's Commissioner for Wales has been named as Keith Towler.
Childcare employers and voluntary organisations in Scotland can now check job applicants' suitability to work with children under the Protection of Children (Scotland) Act 2003 which came into...
Early years organisations across Scotland have welcomed the setting of the qualifications criteria for the registration of early education and childcare workers, announced last week by the Scottish...
Talks between Unison and employers aimed at resolving the nursery nurse dispute in Scotland ended in dead- lock last week (3 June) without reaching an agreement on pay.
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The number of childcare providers has fallen for the first time since Ofsted started compiling data on the early years and childcare market. Quarterly figures published by Ofsted show that the number...
Nursery staff in England who have had police checks within the past three years do not need to apply to Ofsted for a Disclosure check by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) when starting a new job at...
The grassroots campaign against the Government rules for nursery education funding was stepped up last week when 400 private and voluntary nursery providers attended a meeting called by Kent County...
<P> The Scottish Pre-school Play Association has responded to the pressures of change by giving its corporate image a makeover with a jaunty new logo and the motto 'Learning through Play'. </P>