Two of the UK's largest nursery chains are set to merge following a 60m deal. <BR>Leapfrog, which was to float on the London Stock Exchange next month, has chosen instead to be bought by Nord Anglia...
French, German and Spanish are among the foreign languages Liverpool four-year-olds will start to learn when a pilot scheme gets under way this September. <BR>
<P> More than 1,500 complaints from parents about childcare provision have been logged by Ofsted's Early Years Directorate in its first four months of operation. </P>
Early years good practice in Scotland should be followed by the rest of Britain, according to a leading early years expert. Professor Tina Bruce, visiting professor at the University of North London,...
The Early Years National Training Organisation (EYNTO) is hosting two conferences in Scotland to promote anti-discriminatory policies. The meetings, funded jointly by the Scottish Executive and...
The Government is looking at extending the child tax credit scheme to enable parents on low incomes to have more than the two-and-a-half hours a day of universal free provision they receive for their...
Nursery operators may be allowed to count young trainees as up to half of their accredited staff, under an amendment in Ofsted's guidance to the Government's national standards for daycare in England.
The Scottish Independent Nurseries Association is calling for a national quality assurance scheme for all early years settings in Scotland to reassure parents in the wake of a spate of scare stories...
In this new monthly column, Mark Traynor, partner at HRC Law, will chronicle key trends in the nursery property sector. He starts the series with a review of the past year (December 2015-2016)
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