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A new initiative helps childcare providers choose the quality assurance scheme that can best benefit their practice, says the Sure Start Unit...

Day nurseries across England are finding it difficult to continue offering free childcare places to three- and four-year-olds as the Government's nursery education grant is failing to cover their basic...

Growing demand by parents for childcare outside traditonal weekday 'nine to five' hours is not being met by care providers, claims a report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation....

Nursery children went to a London cinema to see the world premiere of an animation film they had made themselves. Catherine Gaunt was there to see what it was all...

'Pester power' can turn shopping into a nightmare, but Mary Whiting of the Food Commission offers some tips to help you cope...

Carers need to recognise when a child's self-soothing habit is an expression of distress that shows they may need help, say psychologists from the Anna Freud Centre...

The relationship between private and voluntary childcare providers and childcare partnerships still needs work in some areas, a year-long Scottish Executive-funded research project has concluded....

Can Margaret Hodge overturn New Labour's patchy record on early years? Professor Helen Penn has suggestions for the minister overseeing an integrated approach...

Headteacher Irene Drummond describes a typically hectic week at Chatham Place Nursery School in Liverpool, and at home too . . ....

This year's student essay competition asked students to outline how they would attract more men into childcare and early years education. We had a huge response with some innovative ideas...