Ofsted has launched a consultation on plans to change the way it inspects early years settings, schools and further education and skills providers.
The DfE has extended the bursary scheme for graduate entry to Early Years Teacher Status courses to those with 2.2 degrees for 2016/17.
The Early Years National Training Organisation (EYNTO) is hosting two conferences in Scotland to promote anti-discriminatory policies. The meetings, funded jointly by the Scottish Executive and...
Blackpool Better Start, a Big Lottery-funded initiative working to transform services in Blackpool for young children and their families, has introduced a new Quality Mark for providers of early years...
The first ever nutritional guidelines to support early years settings in providing healthy meals for children under five have been launched today by the School Food Trust.
The Duchess of Cambridge has set up an early childhood research centre with the ambition of changing the way society thinks about the first five years of a child’s life, and transforming the lives of...
Early years settings up and down the country have been enjoying festive events and activities to mark the Christmas season.
Six years of progress in early education and childcarecould be undermined by threats to the future sustainability of new provision, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned. A report, Early years:...
Childcare is now seen as equally essential to the functioning of a community as energy, according to a leading property expert, fuelling an ‘unprecedented’ boom in investment from across the globe.