The Family and Parenting Institute celebrated its tenth anniversary and Parents' Week 2009 with a lunchtime reception at the House of Commons.
Are you ready for the new statutory scheme for checking childcare staff or volunteers? Karen Faux outlines what it will involve.
The 2010 early years providers survey, carried out by the Department of Education, points to greater losses and more vacancies but many of this year's findings may be affected, in part, by changes to...
Buckinghamshire Childminding Network and Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council children's centres were recognised last week at the Children and Young People Now 2009 Awards.
The introduction of a database holding details of every child in England is being delayed, the Government has confirmed.
Nursery operators can look forward to some opportunities for growth as 2010 progresses but they should approach borrowing with caution, says Ian Murchie, relationship director in the Barclays...
More than 11,000 childcare places have been lost in the past three months, according to the latest Ofsted figures.
The UK private nursery sector is now worth a staggering 2bn, an increase of 72 per cent since 2000. But the 2004 Market Assessment report by market analysts Key Note has warned that the falling birth...
From next month it's all change for the Childcare Approval Scheme in England. The scheme is coming under the voluntary part of the new Ofsted Childcare Register, to which applications will have to be...
The Daycare Trust has been commissioned by the Government Office for London (GOL) to work with local authorities in the capital to help deliver sufficient childcare.