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The Early Years Directorate, a new division of Ofsted,is taking over regulation of nurseries from local authorities. Alison Mercer reports on the changes This autumn will see a radical overhaul of the...
Wraparound care is in line for further Government funding as the Department for Education and Skills prepares to evaluate five pilot programmes around the country. The DfEShas commissioned the...
The Cambridge Primary Review has garnered compliments from the early years sector for its recommendation of extending the EYFS approach upwards and raising the school starting age to six (see News,...
Natalie Perera looks at the detail behind the Government's much-quoted £6 billion childcare spending figure
Nursery nurse members of public services union Unison in Edinburgh will vote this week in a postal ballot to decide whether or not to accept the local authority's latest pay offer or remain out on...
To register your interest in the Pre-School Learning Alliance's latest campaign, 'Feeding Young Imaginations', please call 020 7833 0991 - not the mobile numbers printed in Nursery World on page 5, 1...
A recent development has seen Jasmine naming colours spontaneously. She clearly knows pink, purple, blue (boo) and orange (noringe). Sometimes she identifies green (geen) too. She likes to build...
Local authorities will receive a share of 167m in funding designed to boost out-of-hours services offered in schools, as part of the Government's extended services subsidy.
Ofsted's first national analysis of childcare provision since taking over its inspection and regulation in September 2001 seems to show cause for optimism about quality, with improvements being made...
Play is sliding down the agenda in many London councils, with more than 70 per cent of local authorities having cut spending on play or with no budget left to cut, finds a new survey.