12 February 2004
The NHS childcare strategy is facing an uncertain
future, according to a report produced for the Department of Health, despite
its proven benefits to NHS staff over the past four...
12 February 2004
* NASUWT members have protested at Essex education
authority's plan to introduce a six-term school year from this September. The
teachers' union said last week that 68 per cent of...
12 February 2004
Day nurseries and other organisations in Northern
Ireland that work with children have been given notice of new child protection
legislation that is to come into force there this autumn....
12 February 2004
Fiftieth anniversary celebrations arebeing planned at
Greygates Nursery in Muswell Hill, north London. The nursery was started by
Hazell Braddock in 1954 and has been run by her daughter, Denise...
12 February 2004
A campaign to raise awareness of classroom safety among
teachers and classroom assistants has been launched by the Health and Safety
Executive and the local education authorities in Glasgow, Sheffield...
12 February 2004
Two leading charities campaigning for improved
work-life balance, Parents At Work and New Ways to Work, have merged to form a
new pressure group, Working Families. At its launch in...
12 February 2004
Cuts to the Children's Fund over the next two years may
put in jeopardy many local programmes aimed at vulnerable children, leading
children's charities and early years partnerships said last...
12 February 2004
The drop-out rate for childminders new to the
profession is intended to be stemmed with a £20m support scheme from the
Sure Start Unit, to be rolled out nationally from...
12 February 2004
(Photograph) - Children got to cut the ribbon at the
opening of the pre-school rooms at Woodlands Nursery in Preston, Lancashire.
The setting is on the site of a former...
12 February 2004
Funding committed to many local projects around the
country has been put in jeopardy by drastic cuts in the Children's Fund. Simon
Vevers finds out what's happened practitioners can do...