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In this year's Nursery World student essay competition, we asked participants to write on the theme of 'caring for birth to threes'. Here we reprint in full the winning entry,...

The Government is to throw an extra £100m at children's centres but, says Sue Finch, it won't be enough for an integrated service The Chancellor surprised everyone when he announced,...

By Nathan Archer, consultant at the children's house consultancy While the development of children's centres is broadly welcomed, we cannot lose sight of the effect this initiative has on already...

So the school nurseries, sorry, Foundation Stage Units are taking in babes in arms now. It makes me wonder what they did before playgroups, pre-schools and private nurseries ever began....

The National Child Minding Association (NCMA) joins other childcare organisations in regretting the sensationalist messages that have recently hit the national news about babies, toddlers and childcare. Many parents must...

As a parent I was dismayed to read that a ban on television advertising of food to children has been ruled out by Ofcom (news, 29 July). As its report...

I am 36 and have been working in childcare for nearly half my life. My salary is very low and I can just about keep afloat. I had to take...

8 August Back to the Front with Michael Nicholson: Bangladesh ITV, 12.55 to 1.30pm

21 September A sure start for every child: leadership and family support