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After many years of lobbying by childcare organisations, the Government's proposals to extend tax breaks for employer-supported childcare look set to make significant advances (see News, page 4). Tax breaks...

Araft of new measures that will significantly extend access to tax breaks for employer-supported childcare across the UK has been proposed by the Treasury. At present, employees do not pay...

Good headteachers and well-trained classroom assistants are key factors in ensuring that a primary school implements the national literacy and numeracy strategies successfully, a report by Ofsted has found. The...

The Nursery and Early Years Community, part of the Talking Heads online community for headteachers, is developing discussion on a wide range of subjects. Discussions in small or large groups...

Early Education, the charity for early years practitioners and parents, is celebrating its 80th anniversary with the Great Outdoors Art Exhibition at the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, London....

'I have a very real concern that the innovation and reform we need to see in our schools may be inhibited by an over-concentration on targets.' David Bell, Ofsted chief...

Out-of-school clubs across the UK are set to sound out the musical talents of thousands of children through an innovative programme aimed at encouraging them to pick up an instrument...

Nursery nurse members of the public sector union Unison in Scotland moved a step closer to industrial action last week after talks broke down with their local authority employers. A...

Staff at the 60-place Birrell Collection Nursery School in Edinburgh met nursery nurses and teachers from Iceland earlier this month on a visit organised by www.scottishnurseries.com, a website about nurseries...

Computers are to be installed in more nurseries in disadvantaged areas across Scotland over the coming year. Sixty computer centres will be set up under the KidSmart Early Learning programme,...