19 September A new deal for children - Reforming children's services in Scotland, England and Sweden This conference by Children in Scotland, in association with the Ministry of Education of Sweden,...
<P> Training and funding are top of the agenda for National Day Nurseries Association chief executive Rosemary Murphy OBE as she describes a typical working week </P>
Day nurseries across England are finding it difficult to continue offering free childcare places to three- and four-year-olds as the Government's nursery education grant is failing to cover their...
Increased bureaucracy and funding issues have contributed to a drop in the number of holiday clubs, according to providers.
Nanny agencies in Scotland are joining forces to protest to the Scottish Executive about proposed charges for registration with the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care, which will see...
Heads of early years services have warned that the level of capital funding from the Government for the second wave of children's centres is inadequate and will pose a massive challenge to reaching...
Liz Hunt, principal at Norland College, talks about how the 120-year-old institution has changed and how sophisticated IT systems are now helping it to deliver 21st Century childcare training
The four-year pay deal for Scotland's teachers has been criticised by union leaders representing striking nursery nurses.
Babies should have a cholesterol test at 15 months to identify any risk of inherited heart disease, say leading researchers. An analysis of 13 studies by scientists from the London Queen Mary's School...
Scotland's government announced 6m funding to tackle childhood obesity. Health boards will set up family-focused healthy weight programmes for children aged five to 15. The programmes will target at...