29 April 2004
Unison's chief negotiators have been forced to back down in their fight for a national pay settlement for Scotland's nursery nurses.
29 April 2004
Britons owe more money than ever, and the childcare sector is going to feel the crunch when it comes, as Simon Vevers explains
29 April 2004
The final touches to a possible blueprint for local authorities in England and Wales negotiating the pay and conditions of school support staff have been put together between union negotiators...
29 April 2004
Thousands of working parents could find themselves out of pocket next year when the Government's much-heralded £50 a week tax and national insurance break on employer-supported childcare comes into operation.
29 April 2004
Working together is taking on a new meaning in one local authority area that's putting into practice the Government's order to integrate children's services, says Simon Vevers
29 April 2004
The HIV/Aids pandemic in Africa has left a generation of orphans fending for themselves. Professor Helen Penn recalls what she witnessed on an EU project in Swaziland
29 April 2004
Competition to attract and retain good quality early years workers is set to become fiercer. So, says June O'Sullivan , it pays to put staff training at the top of...
29 April 2004
High quality outdoors provision is vital for children's development. Jan White looks at a new scheme to help settings deliver it
29 April 2004
The spotlight is firmly on caring for birth to threes - the theme of this year's essay competition (opposite). First, Lena Engel looks at outdoor play for this age group
15 April 2004
Should we be aiming for an integrated childcare
workforce, where a core qualification is taken by everybody wanting to work
with children of all ages, followed by training through specialist...