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The private education group Nord Anglia has reported profits of 4.6m before tax and exceptional items over the year ending 31 August 2002 - a 14 per cent increase on the previous year. Turnover also...
A report last week from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 'Around the Clock: Childcare Services at Atypical Times', looks at the problems of parents who need their children cared for outside of...
The feature on nursery schools ('In need of repair', 1 March) was very welcome. While the Department for Education and Employment may now recognise the value of nursery schools, we need to have local...
The early years landscape is changing fast, with the past few years seeing the introduction of free nursery education for three-and four-year-olds, the Foundation Stage, Sure Start, and the Early...
In the fourth article of his series on types of play, Philip Waters explores the meaning of symbolic representation About a year ago I was invited to a Christmas family gathering where two young...
As the Kate Greenaway Nursery School has expanded, we have aimed for every new initiative to be supported by evidence of best practice from elsewhere and shaped by the views of local families....
Praise is generally considered to be a positive thing, but it can actually have a negative effect on how a child perceives their ability to achieve. Caroline Vollans explains.
The new national standards for the regulation and inspection of childcare are meant to make a level playing field of a locally bumpy area. We asked childcare provider organisations how they see it....
Nannies need to be more aware of their maternity rights, says Asa Nilsdotter The phone rings in my office; there is a nanny at the other end of the phone nervously asking, 'I have just discovered I'm...
Childcare providers have been invited by the Inland Revenue to suggest ways to improve the childcare tax credit element of its new employment tax credit, which is to replace the Working Families Tax...