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Angry nursery workers were due to stage a one-day strike this week in support of a fair pay and grading claim against Ealing Council in west London. As Nursery World went to press, the strike was...
A mobile phone designed for children as young as four is to go on sale in shops in the UK from October.
The number of parents who read to their children has seen a sharp increase since they joined the Dolly Parton free book gifting programme, according to a new survey.
Adventure playgrounds run by voluntary organisations are set to benefit from 1.5m in Government funding aimed at updating or refurbishing them, it was announced on Monday.
I read with interest your article on men in childcare (Nursery World, news, 14 October). Staff at the Gooseberry Bush Day Nursery were keen to address this issue so we contacted Jobcentre Plus and...
By Judith Hadley, who runs out-of-school, breakfast and holiday clubs in the Bristol area I cannot speak strongly enough for the rights of children to have the best possible care, so I was astounded...
The Labour and Conservative parties set out their family and childcare policies in their election manifestos last week.
Leapfrog Day Nurseries, the UK's second-largest nursery chain, announced last week that it has abandoned its plans to float on the London Stock Exchange. Leapfrog had said in April that it planned to...
Problems with the childcare tax credit need to be sorted out by the Inland Revenue if the childcare strategy is to succeed, the Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) has warned. The Inland Revenue...
The Scottish Executive's abandoned proposal to ban the physical punishment of under-threes came under fire in a heated debate in the Scottish Parliament last week. Justice Minister Jim Wallace opened...