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It is perhaps not surprising that nurseries have won praise from Ofsted and the Food Standards Agency for providing better food education and having higher nutritional standards than primary schools...

Increased spending on childcare is an encouraging sign that the Government is tackling child poverty but cuts in civil service jobs could undermine the strategy, the Child Poverty Action Group...

(Photograph) - Alexia Ispani and her four-month-old daughter Sienna joined the 50th anniversary party at Greygates pre-school nursery in Muswell Hill, London, which is attended by big sister Chiara. Generations...

'The inadvertent cost of women's entry into the labour market in the last two decades has been to reduce the status of motherhood to something akin to a hobby: you're...

Families of deaf babies and children will be able to tell how well their child's development is progressing, with the announcement last week of a new tool to measure their...

The Pre-school Learning Alliance has appointed Steve Alexander as its new chief executive. He was previously chief executive of the British Dyslexia Association. Chair of the trustees Judith Thompson said,...

Children who watch television for more than two hours a day are more likely to be obese, to smoke and have high cholesterol in early adulthood, according to a report...

A 24-hour digital TV channel for teachers aimed at raising standards in the classroom is to be launched by the DfES early next year. Teachers' TV will show programmes on...

(Photograph) - Community spirit flowed in Lewisham, London, when more than 1,000 local people took part in the fourth annual Quaggy Carnival on 26 June. The carnival started with a...

The new Sector Skills Council for all those working in early years and children's social care will start to take on some of the duties previously undertaken by the Early...