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As many as 40 per cent of parents with young children cannot recite a single nursery rhyme, preferring instead to sing pop songs or television theme tunes to their child,...

Ofsted has been criticised by MPs for being too bureaucratic, amid fears about the wisdom of its expansion.

The way young children are taught maths is to be overhauled, the new children's secretary revealed last week.

Encouraging children to tune in to their natural ability to play is better than offering them toys, says a leading child psychologist.

A nursery in the path of last month's heavy flooding has been forced to close for six weeks with more than £50,000 worth of damages.

Incorrect payments of tax credits totalling £1billion are made each year through error or fraud, a report by the National Audit Office on HM Revenue and Customs has revealed. Although...

Up to 70 per cent of parents are unaware of the risk of cot death caused by smoking in the home, according to a poll by the Foundation for the...

The National Council for Educational Excellence will hold its first meeting this week with representatives from early years settings, schools, universities, and the business world. Chaired by the Prime Minister...

Following the 'Parents' guide to swimming' (Nursery World, 5 July), some readers have asked whether babies can be taken swimming before they have their first immunisations. Guidelines from the NHS...

A local authority planning to close three of its nurseries has set up a special committee to investigate how the decision was made, following a campaign by parents and nursery...