The cost of part-time nursery places for under-twos has risen by 33 per cent in the last Parliament, according to an annual survey of childcare costs.
What does the future have in store for the early years workforce if current trends continue? Sara Bonetti, associate director of early years at the Education Policy Institute, makes some exclusive...
Our guide to travel operators who employ childcarers will help you plan your trip to a holiday resort. Dan Levy has the details Canvas Holidays
All children under four months old are to be vaccinated against rotavirus, a highly infectious stomach virus, from next year.
I read with interest the letter from Melissa Gibson, 'When a degree fails to find the job to match' (7 December). At no point in my previous letter (2 November) did I state that I felt hard work and...
Sorry, yet another letter from a disgruntled, whingeing nursery nurse. I followed the advice in your news story ('NNEBs need not requalify - but refresh training', 13 February) and contacted CACHE to...
While Government figures on the number of two-year-olds that have taken up the free early education places could be viewed as encouraging, the sector has cautioned that any future success is dependent...
The 15 March edition of Nursery World reported a study by the Institute of Social and Economic Research which apparently showed that children with mothers who worked full-time were less likely to...
I am delighted that the Government has finally staged a U-turn and decided to level England's daycare playing field over allowing childminders to smack and smoke with parental consent (News, 15 May)....
The records of children's own writing tend to be very religious. Dorothy Plumpton, writing about 1600 to beg her father to allow her to return home, ends, 'And I beseech you to send me a fine hatt and...