A private nursery in Leeds has complained about the difficulty of meeting Ofsted requirements while complying with requests from parents, following an action taken against it by the inspection body...
More than 200 delegates are expected to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Early Education at a conference on 9 and 10 May in Exeter. The charity began life in 1923 as the Nursery School Association,...
'If I look at my childminder, I may have a teacher of the future, I may have a nursery manager, I may have an engineer. What we have got to offer people who come into this industry is the opportunity...
This year's survey of pay for nannies round the UK is now being compiled by Nannytax. Agencies are reminded to return their questionnaires if they've received one from Nannytax, or if they haven't, to...
'Gordon Brown's original mission statement was: affordable, accessible, good-quality childcare for all. If the national childcare strategy continues to wobble along its present path, he will fail to...
'It's a mistake of the Government to build Sure Start children's centres only for the poor because they are politically invisible. State-provided childcare hasn't entered the political arena, and it...
'While I enjoyed my visit, it was rather disconcerting to find some members of staff referring to Ofsted as the organisation that must-not-be-named and some pupils confusing me with Lord Voldemort'...
'After the baby boom of the 1950s we've had the baby bust. Europe's real demographic crisis is not longevity but birth rates.' David Willetts, shadow work and pensions secretary, argues that babies...
Day nurseries and other organisations in Northern Ireland that work with children have been given notice of new child protection legislation that is to come into force there this autumn. The...
The childcare approval scheme introduced in April has so far seen 600 nannies registered as approved, and another 600 now going through the application process, according to the Department for...