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Foundation degrees in early years lay the perfect groundwork for people who need to work while studying, says Catherine Gaunt...

We know that children need plenty of fruits - but why, and how can nurseries best provide this? Mary Whiting from the Food Commission offers some answers...

Parents and practitioners alike can take steps to see that they don't pass on to children their own negative attitudes towards solving maths problems, says Penny Tassoni...

Children's charities and childcare associations have warmly welcomed the U-turn by the Department for Education and Skills on allowing childminders in England to smack the children in their care and...

Ofsted is looking for legal avenues that would let it tell parents the results of any investigations into complaints made by them against daycare providers without the provider's consent.

As schools in England set out to fulfill the aims of the Government's new Extended Schools programme, they could look to Scotland for a working model, as Mary Evans reports

The results of the first joint care and education inspections of early years settings in Scotland have just been published following a pilot programme carried out in November and December...

For a long time, the protests about the provision in the national care standards to allow childminders to smack the children in their care and smoke in front of them...

Children's charities and childcare associations have warmly welcomed the U-turn by the Department for Education and Skills on allowing childminders in England to smack the children in their care and...

Ofsted is looking for legal avenues that would let it tell parents the results of any investigations into complaints made by them against daycare providers without the provider's consent. At...