'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...
'Four out of five adults think children's lives are more perilous than they used to be, when the opposite is true. Britain treats its children harshly. None the less, no country, bar Sweden, is safer'
Out-of-school care is burgeoning with the latest DfES workforce survey reporting an 86 per cent rise in the number of providers between 1998 and 2001. The New Opportunities Fund still has 207m...
* The London Borough of Camden has been judged 'good' at producing positive outcomes across all areas of children's services in the Annual Performance Assessment conducted by Ofsted and the Commission...
Time trends of cancer incidence in European children (1978-1997): Report from the Automated Childhood Cancer Information System project Within the project framework, time trend analyses for childhood...
How do leading representatives of the early education and childcare world rate Labour's efforts - and what else would they like to see done? Nationally, it has been a groundbreaking time for the...
Paula Vekony has been named Professional Nanny of the Year 2013. She was announced as the winner at the end of an all-day conference specifically for professional nannies at The Chiltern College.
Claire explains how she feels she is leading the way in a revolutionary form of speech therapy, for which there is a huge demand in our post-pandemic world.
The charity Shelter has launched an emergency appeal to help more than 100,000 children who will be waking up homeless this Christmas.
Ahead of the next general election, pledges will likely be made about childcare, but will they have any substance?