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A leading academic has claimed that the Government's policy of allowing childcare provision to be driven by market forces has led to appalling standards in some private nurseries in deprived areas.
A survey of voluntary and community organisations in Glasgow points to 'a sector in crisis', with 96 per cent of respondents concerned about their survival beyond the next financial year. The Glasgow...
MPs have called on the Government to conduct an urgent review into childcare funding, and commit to emergency funding for the sector, in a report which highlights 'the serious and unprecedented...
Is it within the remit of a regulatory body to get political?
In a new policy insight paper the three main political parties give their views on the best directions for childcare. Annette Rawstrone reports.
Ofsted's latest report on the early years and childcare sector paints a broadly positive picture of day-to-day operations in the sector (see News, page 6), brimming as it is with examples of good...
* The Big Lottery Fund - the joint operating name of the New Opportunities Fund and the National Charities Board - has also awarded 218,785 to the National Childbirth Trust, in collaboration with...
Teaching support staff are now bearing the brunt of the 30 million in cuts to funding at the Training and Development Agency (TDA).
The total number of childcare places in England has dropped by 11,000 in three months as the recession takes its toll on early years providers, the latest Ofsted figures show.
For a long time, the protests about the provision in the national care standards to allow childminders to smack the children in their care and smoke in front of them with parental permission seemed to...