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Further to last week's news story, a spokesperson for Bright Horizons has asked us to point out that when private education provider Nord Anglia contracted to buy the Milton Keynes-based nursery group...
I fully agree with the comments about low rates of pay in the childcare sector that were highlighted in the Daycare Trust report Who will care? (News, 4 October). It seems funny that someone stacking...
(Photograph) - Damon Britton, otherwise known as Dom in the TV series 'Byker Grove', plants a flower with four-year-old Oliver Thompson at the Riverside Centre Nursery in North Shields, Tyneside,...
Editor's note: We have no wish for parents or carers to relax the care of children who have allergies. The article stated that nursery staff should seek medical training and work closely with parents...
Sure Start needs to be given time to draw in the most disadvantaged, say its defenders. Simon Vevers reports Press reaction to the National Evaluation of Sure Start was almost unremittingly negative,...
Community backing for Sure Start programmes in one deprived area has been won over with a combination of roadshows, public meetings and questionnaires. The Sure Start partnership board in Salford,...
Ofsted is writing to all childminders to ask whether they would like their contact details published on their website.
A Cambridgeshire nursery where a baby died after choking on a piece of apple will not be closed down, following its attainment of a satisfactory grade in a recent Ofsted inspection. Just Learning...
A survey being carried out on behalf of Devon County Council aims to find out if local childcare provision is meeting the needs of parents and carers.
With regard to the news story about the clergyman who has called for a boycott of the NSPCC in Northern Ireland because it opposes the smacking of children (31 May), I think there is a very fine line...