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Local authorities’ failure to monitor childcare provision, and a lack of available places, risks putting the Government’s childcare plans in jeopardy, warns a new report.
Children living in areas with Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLP) are less likely to be overweight and have better physical health than children in other areas, according to new research.
The Comprehensive Spending Review is on the table and local authorities are considering what services they will have to cut.
Too many imports, too many repeats and not enough news is the unwholesome diet of television programming being fed to the UK's children, according to a report which looks at 50 years of broadcasting....
I was rather bemused to read in a news story ('Nursery nurses gain record rise', 3 July) that 'the new deal brings nursery nurses closer in line with classroom assistants'. How can this be? However...
I think the findings of the Ofsted team's visit to Denmark and Finland are fantastic (News, 24 July). At last someone has given credence to something we have known for years. I home-educate a...
Nursery workers who successfully battled for increased pay last year are now worried about the future of their local authority nursery centres. Following strike action last June, nursery officers in...
Of all the initiatives pushed through by the Government in the past few years, the Transformation Fund seems to have caused the most confusion and suspicion. It is very difficult to engage with...
Settings with exemplary practice are getting a chance to show it off to local authorities through a new NDNA project, says Karen Faux.