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Unison's chief negotiators have been forced to back down in their fight for a national pay settlement for Scotland's nursery nurses. At a meeting last week the public services trade union agreed that...
Many local authorities are failing to provide families with the information they need to access childcare for their disabled child, finds a new report.
Children's charity NCH is to change its name to Action for Children from September. The charity says it is aiming to raise its public profile, increase its voluntary income and focus more on...
The early years sector has expressed further concern over the financial sustainability of settings as new figures reveal stagnant funding rates for most local authorities next year.
Major changes to guidance on local and national safeguarding arrangements went out to consultation yesterday.
In this true story, an experienced nanny tells Helen Kewley about how a false accusation blackened her reputation with employment agencies 'I couldn't believe what had just happened to me. As I sat in...
Public services union Unison has denied claims by Scotland's local authority employers that nursery nurses are on the brink of settling their long-running dispute over pay and workloads at a local...
The National Childminding Association is changing its name to the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years as of next year.
I am a nursery nurse in Scotland and I think that all nursery nurses should be on the same national salary. Unison should not have allowed any local deals to take place, for then we would all be...
An inability to obtain landlord permission is one of the most common reasons trainee childminders leave our registration process, says the chief executive of Tiney childminding agency.