Kirktonholme Nursery in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, has won a Pounds100 prize from Nursery World Scotland for raising more money than any other Scottish Independent Nurseries Association member...
Should we be aiming for an integrated childcare workforce, where a core qualification is taken by everybody wanting to work with children of all ages, followed by training through specialist units?...
The teacher recruitment crisis has been headline news for national TV, radio and newspapers over the past few weeks, but there has been no mention of the nursery nurses and classroom assistants who...
By Pat Wills, headteacher at Claremont Primary School in Blackpool Nursery classes have a long tradition of staffing ratios to include nursery nurses alongside teachers. However, the Government's use...
Children in England could begin the national curriculum from the age of three, following the start of a Government consultation on extending the national curriculum to include the Foundation Stage....
Following a raft of recent changes to maternity, sickness and other employment-related legislation, Jacqui Mann of HR4 Nurseries provides a roundup of 20 things every employer needs to know
Families from ethnic minorities use informal childcare because of a lack of culturally and religiously sensitive provision that meets their needs, a report by the Department for Trade and Industry has...
Evidence suggests too much salt can be harmful to children. Nicole Weinstein asks what settings can do.
Staffordshire-based regional chain Footsteps Day Nurseries has acquired Lollipops Day Nursery in Stafford, bringing the company’s nurseries to 10 settings in total.
The BBC could be sued for unfair dismissal of the 10-month-old baby who plays Oscar Branning in 'EastEnders', reported the Mirror.