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How are the second wave of pathfinder local authorities going to slice their single funding formula for childcare providers when they start next month? Melanie Defries asked them.
Online database ContactPoint has begun to be rolled out nationally to all local authorities and frontline practitioners.
The first private nursery for Erskine, Greater Glasgow, has opened under the name of the Enchanted Forest. Located within the Erskine Hospital estate, the nursery caters for children aged from six...
Nurseries across Scotland have been warned to be on their guard following bogus calls from a company claiming they owe it hundreds of pounds for educational publications.
There are more than 1,000 fewer childminders registered with Ofsted than there were six months ago, and the number of places has also fallen slightly, according to the latest figures released by the...
A campaign group started on Facebook is taking on Kent County Council in a battle over proposals to close 23 of the county's 97 children's centres.
The National Child Minding Association (NCMA) joins other childcare organisations in regretting the sensationalist messages that have recently hit the national news about babies, toddlers and...
I think the Government's decision to introduce a profile scheme to sum up the learning and progress of children at the end of the Foundation Stage in England (News, 20 September) is a sensible and a...
Regarding the four-year-olds in Liverpool who are to learn foreign languages (News, 7 June) - it's about time this was done. It has been said time and again that children are like sponges and can...
Lynn Bryden is business and finance support officer at Sure Start Strategic Partnership Tyne & Wear (www.northyneside.gov.uk)