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If we want to preserve our valuable early years services, we must seek to influence politicians, says Dr Julian Grenier, national chair of Early Education
(Photograph) - Term-time support workers demonstrated outside Huddersfield Town Hall in West Yorkshire last week to lobby their employers for holiday pay. The Kirklees branch of public service union...
The nine-year-old girl who blogged photographs of her daily school lunches has visited children in Malawi whose lives she helped change, reported the Sunday Times.
A five-year-old girl has discovered a 130lb rare ammonite fossil while digging with a seaside spade, reported the Times.
- A five-year-old boy has demanded to have his 18 inch-long locks trimmed, said the Daily Mail. Rean Carter supposedly didn't mind his long hair until he started school and he was told to tie his hair...
Local authorities taking part in the 30-hour childcare pilots from September have secured an increase in funding from the Department for Education, after providers in York won their battle for more...
Now that local authorities are to manage the childcare market in their area, will they be able to work more successfully with the PVI sector? Simon Vevers reports Local authorities are used to being...
Education secretary Ruth Kelly attracted some positive attention last week when she declared that she was kindly disposed to considering the introduction of national pay scales for teaching assistants...
Peer to peer support helps early years staff to improve their leadership skills and offer better services, research into a government-funded programme has found.
Your news item on national pay scales (Nursery World, 26 May) suggests the option proposed by education secretary Ruth Kelly is welcomed. NDNA agrees the two-tier system should be examined and a...