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Reading the 11 January Nursery World, there are two things which prompt me to write in. First, I cannot understand why the lead news story on the new Early Years Foundation Stage framework quotes an...
Of all the areas of childcare, it is probably childminding that has changed the most over the years since the National Childcare Strategy was introduced. And it is the childminding networks that have...
Regarding the staff:child ratios for under-threes at playgroups in England (News, 9 January), I must point out that the majority of playgroups are non-profit-making charities. I run a playgroup and we...
As the nine to five working day becomes ever less common, the need grows for childcare in what used to be called unsocial hours. Evening work, night shifts, weekend work - parents who have little...
If further proof is needed that the culture of testing and formally assessing young children in our education system needs to be reversed, then our news story on private tuition for toddlers (page 9)...
Reading some of the reactions to the so-called 'increase' in holiday entitlement (News, 21 September), I started to imagine how the 'Act for the Better Regulation of Chimney Sweepers and their...
The establishment of another organisation to represent nanny agencies has been criticised by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (see News, page 4). REC believes the Association of Nanny...
Further to the news story 'Change nurseries now, parents told' (18 September), this is not only happening to day nurseries, for it has been happening to private nursery schools with primary school...
News that childminders who become home childcarers under the new Government plan launched last month will have to give up their self-employed status seems to sound a death knell for the fledgling...
The crisis of childcare recruitment and salaries is intensifying as Government investment pours into neighbourhood nurseries and extended schools. The private sector is being particularly badly hit,...