Practitioners working with babies feel isolated, neglected and less valued than other staff in the nursery, a three-year long study into baby rooms has concluded, highlighting a need for targeted...
World leaders are being called on to invest more in the early years as new research shows less than 2 per cent of the global aid budget goes to pre-primary education.
Problems with complaint-driven Ofsted inspections stymied providers’ plans to sell their settings or acquire new ones in what was otherwise a positive 2013 for the nursery sector, according to a...
Our Business Costs survey seeking to find out how settings are coping with cost challenges: from the National Living Wage this April through to the funded entitlement for 3/4 year olds (and the...
Parents of young children have been warned that they are likely to face a shortage of available holiday childcare this Easter because many providers are struggling to recruit qualified staff.
Children's play in the UK looks set to benefit from 200m of investment by the New Opportunities Fund following the completion of a wide-ranging cross-departmental review. The review, launched last...
Sunhill Daycare has opened one new setting, but has been forced to close another because of cost pressures, blaming 30-hours underfunding.
Love the Outdoors is the theme of this year’s Outdoor Classroom Day, which will be celebrated on 5 November by thousands of children in the UK and across the world.
The UK has received a grade D+ for its essential services for families and children, in an end of year report by the Family and Parenting Institute.
Babies and children across Scotland will get the chance to benefit from a ‘Summer of Play’, thanks to a £20m fund which puts play, socialising and well-being at the heart of a Covid recovery catch-up...