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If the Government wants to play Santa Claus to the UK's working parents, it could start with the incentives to expand employer-supported childcare that chancellor Gordon Brown alluded to in...

Early years organisations and nursery chains have called on the Government to close a legal anomaly that allows some businesses to offer tax-free childcare but not others. The call was...

(Photograph) - The Crocus Early Years Centre at Saffron Walden County High School in Essex celebrated its first anniversary last week with a visit from Catherine Ashton. The minister for...

'The form is 46 pages long. Many families will not claim because they simply cannot cope with the paperwork.' Anne Redston, tax partner at accountants Ernst & Young, on the...

Schools inspectorate Ofsted has urged the Department for Education and Skills to review the National Literacy Strategy in England in the light of a standstill in standards at Key Stage...

Nursery World was a runner-up in the Business and Professional Magazines (Weekly) category of the 2002 British Society of Magazine Editors awards. The award ceremony at the London Hilton last...

The provision of better childcare facilities will help attract and retain NHS staff, Welsh health minister Jane Hutt said last week when she opened the Teddy Bear Trust Nursery in...

Children as young as four are are being permanently excluded from school in England, Government data for the year 2000-01 has revealed. According to the Office for National Statistics, 13...

Developing affordable childcare in disadvantaged areas to combat social exclusion is the aim of a £900,000 fund secured by North-east Lincolnshire's Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership. The Community Childcare...

(Photograph) - Ruth Courtney from Benthal Infants School joined a rally at the Oval cricket ground in London on 27 November, where thousands of teachers and teaching assistants demanded a...