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A welter of statistics and reports has been released in the past week or so despite the fact that it is summer holiday season. Perhaps government and other bodies are hoping that no one will be...
Well said, Jennie Lindon! (Ask the expert, 28 November). When our children (now aged 22 and 19) were very young, my husband and I decided that they should know from the start that Father Christmas is...
Sure Start's own beginnings perhaps didn't live up to the programme's name, being rather shaky and unclear, but since 1999 the Government's scheme to improve the health and well-being of children in...
Joanne Ryan is the head of assessment for the Early Years Professional Status programme at Edge Hill University. She gained EYPS herself through the Validation pilot scheme in 2006. Here she describes...
Early years providers in England have been praised for their high standards by Ofsted chief inspector David Bell. Speaking in London last week at the publication of Ofsted's report for the year...
The transfer of responsibility for the registration and inspection of daycare to Ofsted last September has led the Office for National Statistics to postpone publishing the latest daycare statistics...
Childcare was at the forefront of the political agenda last week as both the Labour and the Conservative parties pledged to increase provision and give parents more choice in the run-up to the next...
21 FEBRUARY. 'Law in Action'. (BBC Radio 4, 4 to 4.30pm). A quarter of American children and six out of ten Americans are overweight.
An upcoming Channel 4 programme teaching parents how to train their children like dogs has attracted scathing criticism within the early years sector, with thousands calling for it to be cancelled.
At last the ten-year strategy for childcare has been unveiled by Chancellor Gordon Brown (see News, page 4). The 90-odd pages of Choice for parents, the best start for children contain much of...