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When it comes to evaluating the effects of pre-school education on children, there is no substitute for large-scale, long-term research. The results of two such studies have just been released...

Clear evidence has emerged that children who have access to pre-school education do better at school at the age of seven than children who stay at home. The latest findings...

(Photograph) - Children from Lambert Street Nursery School in Hull get in the right gear for road safety as part of a new £1m road safety scheme in their local...

High-quality nursery education has life-long benefits for individuals and the economy, a landmark study concluded last week. Findings from a 40-year experiment, which tracked three-and four-year-olds into adulthood, found that...

(Photograph) - Lily from the CIP 505 Playclub in Isleworth gets snapping outside City Hall, home to the Mayor of London and the London Assembly, where photos taken by 140...

The Daycare Trust has called for a new type of childcare worker whose training and employment conditions mirror that of a school teacher, to staff the growing number of integrated...

The role of the state in family life came under scrutiny last week, as the Government announced that it had the 'right to intervene'. Speaking in a debate at the...

Ofsted is to close its early years administrative centres, cutting 500 jobs as part of the next stage of the inspection body's three-year restructuring process. Administrative support for early years...

Leaks about the content of the Government's ten-year strategy for universal childcare seeped into the national media last week. The Observer expected measures to boost training and pay for childcare...

Taking babies outside in the afternoons could help them sleep through the night, says a new study published in the Journal of Sleep Research. Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University...