Sir Peter Williams' report on maths teaching has much of value, and suggestions for a sensitive approach to the early years goes some way to calming the alarm bells.
A town in Northern Italy with a higher-than-average number of children from birth to three enrolled in early years services is the focus of a new book, Young Children in charge.
Lynn Bryden is business and finance support officer at Sure Start Strategic Partnership Tyne & Wear (www.northtyneside.gov.uk)
Early years professionals in Wales can have their say in setting the National Assembly's priorities for the next two years. The Assembly last week invited people and organisations in Wales to air...
Changes to the tax credit system outlined in Chancellor Gordon Brown's pre-budget report last week have been welcomed by the Child Poverty Action Group. Measures include a rise from 2,500 to Pounds...
A Sure Start children's centre in west Cumbria has been recognised as one of the best centres in the country.
The UK out-of-school childcare market today is worth an estimated 395m, five times as much as in the early 1990s, according to a new report from market researchers Laing & Buisson. In 2005, term-time...
The director of Kidzrus Nursery Group, Nicola Fleury, and the owner of The Children’s House Nursery, Theresa Ellerby, have been recognised in the King’s first Birthday Honours for their services to...
More than 11,000 childcare places have been lost in the past three months, according to the latest Ofsted figures.