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What with the overhaul of the sector's qualifications structure, the extension of the free entitlement and further work on the single funding formula, nursery managers are braced for a year in which...
Talking about sensitive issues is a good route to more reflective practice.
Are nannies about to become an endangered species? That is one interpretation that could be put on the Budget proposal last week that parents be eligible to claim childcare tax credit for registered...
We report in this issue on interesting moves in Islington, north London, where a council pilot scheme is keeping reception-age children at children's centres to complete the whole of the Foundation...
I read the story 'Planning dispute hits childminding network' (6 June) with interest as I have experienced similar difficulties. I work from home with two other registered childminders and, due to the...
Last week the Prime Minister announced that the Government will go ahead with plans to make the second six months of maternity leave transferable between the parents.
The Scottish Executive has put up for consultation its ambitious plans for Scotland's early years workforce, with new management qualifications, higher numbers of graduate-level staff and a single...
I am in two minds over Ofsted's proposal to put information about childminders in England on the internet (News, 3 April). In one way, I don't agree with this, as it's important to protect the...
Further to the news stories on the inquest into the death of five-month-old Thomas Egan as the result of an allergic reaction at a Jigsaw day nursery (News, 30 January and 6 February), it is not good...
The Government's proposals to track pre-school children with parents in jail, on the grounds that they are at a higher risk of becoming criminals themselves, have been met with concern by childcare...