A primary school teacher who lost his job after smacking his eight-year-old daughter in public was given the chance to resume his career last week. The 50-year-old, who cannot be named, was found...
The final touches to a possible blueprint for local authorities in England and Wales negotiating the pay and conditions of school support staff have been put together between union negotiators and...
Thousands of working parents could find themselves out of pocket next year when the Government's much-heralded 50 a week tax and national insurance break on employer-supported childcare comes into...
Aleading nursery chain will have to pay nearly 80,000 over the death of a baby in its care.
MPs on the education and skills select committee last week added their voice to calls for the law in England to be changed, so that parents can read any complaints made about a prospective childcarer.
The training arm of the Scottish Independent Nurseries Association has been sold to the training company Experiential Play.
<P> The relationship between private and voluntary childcare providers and childcare partnerships still needs work in some areas, a year-long Scottish Executive-funded research project has concluded....
More than half the full daycare providers in children's centres are now operating at a loss, a Government survey has revealed, reinforcing concerns about the long-term sustainability of the programme.
Private day nurseries across England may be reluctantly forced to withdraw from the Government's nursery education grant scheme for three- and four-year-olds because it is no longer financially viable...
Trade unions representing nursery nurses across Scotland have rejected a new pay offer from local authority employers a week before they were due to start five days of strike action.