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Ofsted's first national analysis of childcare provision since taking over its inspection and regulation in September 2001 seems to show cause for optimism about quality, with improvements being made and...

Daycare and childminding services in England have received a broadly positive appraisal in Ofsted's first-ever national analysis of the standard of provision. Early years: the first national picture presents the...

Nursery providers have welcomed Ofsted's approach to regulating overnight care for young children. Ofsted took over responsibility for monitoring standards for overnight nursery care in September 2001, with the introduction...

Guidance for childcare inspectors to help them carry out inspections of daycare and childminding and make judgements about whether provision is good, satisfactory or unsatisfactory under its new system introduced...

Parents of children with special educational needs can find information about the support available to them in a new booklet produced by a national independent voluntary organisation. The Advisory Centre...

'The mind-numbing annual ritual of publication of the National Curriculum test results provides little information on the educational achievement of our children.' NUT general secretary Doug McAvoy on the latest...

(Photograph) - Playing with masks is one of many activities on offer at the project Hands on Base at the Horniman Museum in London. The national network for hands-on learning,...

Nursery teachers, childminders and other early years practitioners in the public, private and voluntary sectors are being urged by the Government to become involved in an initiative to share information...

Daycare and childminding services in England have received a broadly positive appraisal in Ofsted's first-ever national analysis of the standard of provision. Early years: the first national picture presents the...

(Photograph) - Two-year-old Courtney Campbell keeps it in the family by beating her own drum next to her father, Stuart, who plays for the Lanarkshire Pipe Band. The father and...