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Wales is set to become the first part of the UK to adopt a national strategy for play. Last week the Welsh Assembly Government launched an eight-week public consultation that...

'The childcare election battle begins,' the BBC said last week as it described the techniques used by Labour and the Tories to woo working parents. In The Times, Janice Turner...

Social enterprise could solve the problem of sustainable childcare provision, according to the charity 4Children. Its new manifesto, 'Creating new solutions', argues that while start-up funding for new childcare provision...

Children's rights advocates have criticised the Government for diluting the independent powers of England's new children's commissioner. A vote in the House of Lords last week decided that the role...

More staff will be enabled to gain formal childcare qualifications with £12m in funding from the Scottish Executive. The Executive has set a target for qualified childcare staff of 85...

Getting it right from the start: developing a service delivery model for non-maintained early years settings Argues the case for developing a model for delivering educational psychology services in early...

Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell hails the arrival of childcare at the top of the parties' election agendas Now we know we're really in the new millennium - for the...

(Photograph) - Children and staff brightened up Elland Private Day Nursery in West Yorkshire by painting a huge sunflower mural in their playground with James Mayhew, author of Katie and...

2 December The future of early years inspection and regulation An exploration of management and organisational issues and discussion of how services can work towards raising standards in key areas...

Happitots, Scotland's second largest nursery chain, has set up a training arm to extend its business and provide in-house training for its staff. The Happitots Training Company trains nursery nurses...