The number of nursery closures in England increased by more than a third during the height of the pandemic compared to the same period the previous year, new analysis by the National Day Nurseries...
Supporting children with SEND is to get a new qualification. Charlotte Goddard asks what the sector wants it to achieve
Market research will form the backbone of your business plan, says Martin Pace. It is a measure of the number of potential customers around your proposed location and a snapshot of their childcare...
* At any one time local authorities in England look after 58,000 children. * About 20 per cent of children in local authority care - over 10,000 - are four years old or younger.
Children's reading and memory could be impared by exposure to high levels of aircraft noise, says new research published in The Lancet.
Following on from NCFE's Spotlight report which highlighted a skills gap within the workforce, its sector manager for education and childcare, Janet King argues that the sector need to be...
The main findings in Ofsted's latest annual report are summed up by Catherine Gaunt Ofsted's annual report published last week revealed that more than half of childcare and nursery education settings...
What has been done in the past ten years to implement children's right to be consulted for their views? Professor Priscilla Alderson looks back.
Many art galleries run a schools programme but some also have specially designed nursery workshops. Catherine Gaunt went to join in I'm in the art room of the labyrinthine basement of London's Tate...
There has been a five percentage point increase in the number of six-year-olds passing the phonics reading check.