Will extended childcare services eat into quality time for families? Geraldine Blount hears some expert opinions While there is much to celebrate about the move towards extended care, some academics...
'Teachers now have to draw on their deepest reserves of professionalism to set aside their own strong feelings in order to provide whatever perspective, comfort, understanding and empathy their pupils...
'How can parents be persuaded that the Government is committed to raising standards when it plans to useunqualified people as teachers?' Doug McAvoy, general secretary of the National Union of...
'What is important is that ... we set the level of qualification at a realistic level which neither excludes too many workers nor devalues the sector.' Shuna Cant, head of early education and...
'The introduction to school is very sensitive for most children. If children start too early, they might feel things are too difficult. That might carry on for a few years and could be quite...
'Childcare is now one of the most pressing concerns for unions and parents both in and out of work' Brendan Barber, TUC general secretary, commenting on the TUC and the Daycare Trust report Women,...
'I feel sorry for Michael Jackson's kids in some respects, but considerably less sorry than I felt for the toddler I recently saw being thumped by his mother for the crime of wanting some of her...
'It is a bitter irony that the rising level of women's employment in the UK is being underpinned, in many instances, by the low-paid work of other women cleaning their homes and looking after their...
It's always a great day to investigate what makes morning special, with early years activities from Helen Shelbourne about telling the time and making breakfast Adult-led activities
More than 10 per cent of the membership of the Scottish Pre-school Play Association has been lost over the past year, as playgroups continue to close under pressure from growing local authority...