The National Day Nurseries Association is working with Buckinghamshire County Council to find out what local employers and staff need from childcare providers and identify where there are gaps in...
Maintaining high-quality provision is ‘challenging but achievable’, Nicole Weinstein discovers, as she talks to small and large nursery groups about how economic and staffing pressures are impacting...
A survey of mums, undertaken by the Parent-Infant Foundation, suggests pregnant women are not getting the support they need to help them bond with their babies.
A new legal duty has been placed on local authorities in Wales to ensure provision for children's play is included in future planning, it was revealed last week. The measure was set out in the UK's...
Parents will be able to carry over any unused hours from their free early years entitlement to use when they want later, in plans unveiled as part of the next stage of the Government's childcare...
An extra 140m for early years provision has been promised in the Welsh Assembly Government's three-year draft budget, with 67m for early education and the remainder for improving children's health...
Children's play provision is among the victims of the new Government's axe, along with literacy initiatives and childcare subsidies for parents training to go back to work.
Britain should look at the development of early years services in other European countries to assess what it wants for its own, argues Professor Peter Moss
A survey being carried out on behalf of Devon County Council aims to find out if local childcare provision is meeting the needs of parents and carers.