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The heat is rising and the school holidays are imminent, so it seems like a good point to take stock of the extended schools initiative in advance of the hurly...

Kent County Council has suspended the introduction of new conditions for the nursery education grant (NEG), which were due to be implemented from September. In a letter to PVI providers...

Early reading pilot schemes, which involve specialist training with practitioners, will be extended to more areas from next term, with funding until September 2008. National director of the Foundation Stage...

A father was fined £50 after his two-year-old son threw a sweet on the ground in Pontefract market, West Yorkshire, reported the Daily Express. Craig McKinley insisted he did not...

(Photograph) - Jessica and Douglas Laird enjoy Betty the Butterfly with their mother Debbie. The book was produced by the Footsteps parent and toddler group in Killingworth, Tyneside, with the...

The National Childminding Association (NCMA) has secured assurances from the DfES that plans to change the adult:child ratios for childminders set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage consultation document...

A new vaccine against pneumococcal meningitis will be offered to every child under two in the UK from the autumn, the Department of Health has announced. From 4 September every...

Children who have learning difficulties and special needs do as well in mainstream schools as special schools, according to a new report from Ofsted. However, they do best academically, socially...

Speech and language charity I CAN is inviting childcare professionals and parents to complete an online poll about early years communication development. The poll, at www.ican.org.uk, aims to establish whether...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a study, What makes parenting programmes work in disadvantaged areas?, based on the trial of a programme in primary schools in London, at www.jrf.org.uk/redirect.asp?url=findings/socialpolicy/0386.