Put something extra in your coffee mornings by raising money for Macmillan Cancer Relief. The charity is urging everyone to get involved in its annual World's Biggest Coffee Morning on Friday, 26...
* 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...
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...
Desperately wanting to create a fresh project, drama club leader Alex Marker cast around his neighbourhood for a setting that would have a different impact... I was in a rut. Summer and holiday...
'The DfEE and the National Childminding Association have a great partnership - they are fiercely independent but we work well together.' Caroline Slocock, divisional manager of the DfEE Childcare...
'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