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There is a wealth of information available on the internet, in paper format and from national organisations that can help practitioners in their research. Below are just some of the good starting...
I am writing as a registered childminder in England who is one of the many to have objected earlier this year to Ofsted's proposal to print childminders' reports and full names and addresses on its...
Local authorities in England will receive 30m a year earlier than planned to develop children's play areas as part of the Government's national play strategy.
There is growing unease in the private nursery sector about their lack of involvement in the development of children's centres. Some providers are finding that local authority-funded centres are...
The Comprehensive Spending Review is on the table and local authorities are considering what services they will have to cut.
Practitioners and parents in Wales will be finding out more about the new Early Support programme to improve the quality of services for disabled pre-school children and their families at a series of...
Nine in ten local authorities in England do not have enough holiday childcare to meet demand, according to the annual survey by the Family and Childcare Trust.
Mary Garry runs Sighthill Nursery in Glasgow, a stand-alone maintained nursery school which takes 80 children in both the morning and afternoon. The nursery takes children from the families of foreign...
Scotland's main teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), is aiming to halt the decline in the number of nursery teachers. Nursery education is to be a key priority when the...