'Tony Blair could have done a Lloyd George. He could have said: we are expanding the welfare state and recognising a state responsibility for all children out of school hours from the age of three....
Voluntary committees running playgroups contribute just under 300,000 a year to early years education in Highland, according to a survey published last week. Highland Pre-school Services (HPS), the...
'The public is prepared for law reform because they know it will help us all protect children more effectively and is not an attack on parents. Law reform would be primarily educative, not punitive.'...
'The inadvertent cost of women's entry into the labour market in the last two decades has been to reduce the status of motherhood to something akin to a hobby: you're expected to fit it into the...
'I am glad the children of Soham have had this fact underlined to them: they know today that for every deceitful murderer whose path they may have crossed in their short lives, there were a thousand...
'In theory, there is a promise for children's centres to cover the poorest 20 per cent of children. So far, it is not happening. Nor are there any figures to show progress... Ask pre-school providers...
Male teachers make up just 12 per cent of the primary school workforce and only 44 men work in state-run nurseries, figures from the General Teaching Council show.
(Photograph) - The first International Child of Courage Award was given to Ali Ismaeel Abbas (standing) at a ceremony in Westminster Abbey as part of the 30th Woman's Own Children of Courage awards....
A nursery will form part of a new 3.4m health and community centre being built at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Care has been taken to make the steel-framed building as energy-efficient as...
(Photograph) - Jack McArdle, Natalie Hough, Daniel Hooks and Holly Bruce (left-right) from the out-of-school club at the Beechwood Educare Centre in Huyton, Merseyside, donned fancy dress and held a...