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Funding for Sure Start children's centres will not be cut, Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed in his speech on the spending review.
The latest Oftsed review has found steady improvements in the quality of early years education and childcare provision in daycare settings year-on-year.
Out-of-school care in Fife has received a double boost with 960,000 in additional funding for new projects and for facilities such as outdoor play areas, play buses and toy libraries. Fife Childcare...
It is rare indeed to find a good news story about wages and conditions for early years professionals, but the Nottinghamshire nursery nurse pay deal appears to be just that. Our Special Report,...
Angry parents and private nursery owners have won a reprieve on the funding of places for three-year-olds outside local authority provision after Dundee City Council backtracked on plans to stop...
By Maureen Smith, ex-CACHE director and now a consultant 1 The need for continuous improvement Customer care needs to remain a top priority. Only by continuously improving your service will customers...
1. Create a stimulating environment that will arouse children's curiosity. 2. Support children's learning by providing the resources that they need to take their investigations further.
One in five children aged under eight now have access to a registered childcare place, according to Ofsted - but increased provision has also led to falling occupancy levels in day nurseries and fears...
It was very heartening to hear Jane Cole, a member of the DfES Foundation Stage team, pledge last week that outdoor play would be accorded its proper place in the forthcoming framework covering birth...
The amount of state intervention in the lives of individuals is a particularly pointed issue in childcare and parenting, with government interference in all areas constantly referred to as 'the nanny...