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Families who are under stress and receiving support from social services find access to childcare particularly helpful, according to a study published by the Scottish Executive last week. Growing...
The pre-school movement is staging a comeback with moves to empower parents and extend services. Catherine Gaunt reports on its new campaign Throughout its 40-year history, the pre-school movement has...
Unemployed parents will be helped to access jobs and training through a Working for Families Fund set up by East Ayrshire Council in conjunction with the Scottish Executive. A new team will help...
I have to say I object to the news headline 'NVQ4 students heading for (the) top' (26 April). Yet again there is the usual implication that degrees are best and that university qualifications are...
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Families with disabled children are going without essentials and getting into debt to pay for food, heating and clothes, finds a new report.
Around 15,600 families in Scotland were receiving the childcare tax credit element of Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) at the beginning of this year, of whom 92 per cent were lone parents, a report...
The Daycare Trust has called for a new type of childcare worker whose training and employment conditions mirror that of a school teacher, to staff the growing number of integrated services that...
Nine nurseries have been ‘named and shamed’ on the latest minimum wage offenders list. How did they get there, and how easy was it to fall foul of the rules? Ruth Stokes reports