Archive

Childcare groups in Scotland have called for greater professional recognition of the workforce in their New Year wish list. The Scottish Executive has set out a busy agenda for the...

Hopes have been raised for progress towards a settlement in the long-running dispute between Scotland's public sector nursery nurses and their council employers. The Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla)...

Young children's health, fitness and co-ordination have been boosted by a successful nursery exercise scheme in Clackmannanshire. Fears over the health of young children were heightened last month when Government...

A group of experts has been set up in Wales to take the Welsh Assembly's childcare policies forward, emphasising its key role as a business advisor and lynchpin for economic...

Research showing that children learn to 'use mental control' so they do not give public vent to ethnic prejudices reinforces the need for all nurseries and schools to have effective...

(Photograph) - Margaret Hodge, minister for children, had fun when she opened Barham Butterflies, a new nursery for staff of the London borough of Brent Primary Care Trust (PCT) at...

* A consultation on the use of alternative phrases to make warnings about the contents of food more explicit to allergy sufferers has been launched by the Food Standards Agency....

Dr David Weikart, founder and president-emeritus of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, died on 9 December at the age of 72 after a long struggle with leukaemia. From the early...

From this summer, people across the UK will be able to access health information through their televisions. The NHS Digital TV service, which will cost £15m over three years, will...

In the run up to Christmas the lottery distributor the New Opportunities Fund (NOF) announced grants of £12m to develop nursery and childcare facilities. The award included £9.4m in the...