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Services for children and adults who live in rural parts of England are sparse, inaccessible and of poor quality, according to the people who live there. Their comments are given in a report,...
Safari Kid International, which has five settings in this country, will now operate under the name Kïdo in the UK and the US.
The early years sector has consistently called for direct subsidies to help private and voluntary settings pay higher wages for more highly-qualified staff. Now it seems that this may indeed be...
When it comes to evaluating the effects of pre-school education on children, there is no substitute for large-scale, long-term research. The results of two such studies have just been released - the...
Excellence in children's health is the focus of awards given by WellChild, a charity for sick children.
Practitioners from a range of childcare and early years education settings had an unprecedented chance last week to question children's minister Margaret Hodge about Government policy at a round table...
The weather may be getting hotter, but the crisis over delays with criminal record checks is reaching boiling point (see News, page 4). It is appalling that with the current recruitment shortages in...
More reassuring noises came from the Government in the past week about its continuing commitment to expanding childcare, as trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt took to the stage at the...
The Government's 'cross-cutting' review of childcare policy which has finally been published makes for fascinating reading (see News, page 4), not least for the acknowledgement that 'important...
The news that neither early years nor playwork have succeeded in their bids to be one of the trailblazer Sector Skills Councils (see page 4) is not a terribly encouraging start to the new year, when...