'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...
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...
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.
Nannies whose new jobs started off awkwardly tell Helen Kewley how they learned to put things right September is traditionally a time when nannies start new jobs and this month many agencies will get...
(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...
Nanny Paula Jackson would like to invite people to a special service of thanksgiving and hope this month for anyone whose life has been touched by meningitis, whether as a carer, patient, parent,...
(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...