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The Department for Education is giving an extra £31.7m to help local authorities implement special needs reforms.
The survey of parents' use and views of childcare and early years, commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, paints a complicated picture of the reasons why take-up of formal...
A pilot scheme aimed at helping parents of disabled children to access suitable childcare is to be rolled out nationally, the Government has announced.
The 25 quality assurance schemes endorsed by the Investors in Children (IiC) kitemark have been named by the Department for Education and Skills. The national schemes are Children's Links, Growing In...
Last week, Nursery World exclusively broke the story about the two mothers stopped from sharing childcare by Ofsted because their arrangement counted as illegal childminding (Nursery World, 24...
I was interested to see the photograph of nursery children making African masks at the Museum of Childhood (News, 31 October). The children were clearly using white card as the basis for the masks. As...
Government funding should be withheld from local authorities that don't work in partnership with the voluntary sector, the Pre-School Learning Alliance told Nursery World last week.
The new House of Commons nursery is the most expensive childcare setting in the country and should be opened up to the children of local families, a Labour MP has argued.
Local authorities are focusing on existing provision as they start to carry out assessments of childcare as part of their new duties under the Childcare Act.<BR>