'I have had bruises from children. I know other teachers and children who have been cut with scissors. People are being spat at and kicked and I have seen chairs hurled around the room by children'...
* The Professional Association of Nursery Nurses celebrated the completion of its inaugural professional development programme when 14 nursery nurses and teaching assistants graduated at a...
Low pay, low status and poor career progression have unsurprisingly emerged as the main barriers to expansion of the Scottish childcare workforce, in a major survey commissioned by the Scottish...
Handling a possible case of child abuse in your setting will call for the utmost sensitivity. NSPCC education adviser Alison O'Brien offers professional guidance In the UK, one child a week dies from...
The chief executive of the Jigsaw Group has stepped down after more than ten years spent guiding the development of the UK's second-largest nursery chain. Tom Shea gave up his position as chief...
'Labour's national childcare strategy and its Sure Start programme have a core idea. Detached from family, it suggests, children will thrive; in social programmes they will realise themselves,...
'Granny, is it true you are in charge of me?' Margaret Hodge's four-year-old granddaughter, on hearing that Mrs Hodge had been appointed England's minister for children, the Daily Telegraph
'It's political and ideological gold dust - a truly progressive social policy that would also delight Middle England.' Polly Toynbee on the electoral importance to the Labour party of the National...
Andrew and Rebekah Monaghan were on hand to help launch the Childminder of the Year Awards in Northern Ireland, along with childminder Elaine McCune, assistant director of the Northern Ireland...