12 February 2004
Childminders should be left in no doubt about their
importance to the Government's National Childcare Strategy after this week's
announcement of a £20m scheme to support new entrants to the...
12 February 2004
Early years providers in England have been praised for
their high standards by Ofsted chief inspector David Bell. Speaking in London
last week at the publication of Ofsted's report for...
12 February 2004
(Photograph) - Children's author Sue Nicholls leads
three- to five-year-olds through activities from The Sound Foundation Handbook
at the Croydon Clocktower in Surrey. The book for Foundation Stage
practitioners features...
12 February 2004
Families from ethnic minorities use informal childcare
because of a lack of culturally and religiously sensitive provision that meets
their needs, a report by the Department for Trade and Industry...
12 February 2004
More than one-third of staff in private day nurseries
in Scotland are paid less than £5 an hour - barely above the minimum wage
of £4.50 an hour for those...
12 February 2004
A free seminar is being offered to parents and carers
of children with special needs by the British Institute for Brain-Injured
Children. The seminar at the Diana, Princess of Wales...
12 February 2004
'They liked things such as baked potatoes, pasta and
fruit. That gives the lie to what people often tell us, which is that children
will only eat highly processed food....
12 February 2004
(Photograph) - BBC Breakfast presenter Dermot Murnaghan
got an earful of chatter when he visited the Cyril Henry Nursery School in the
London borough of Greenwich last week. The children...
12 February 2004
Work began last week on a state-of-the-art early years
centre in mid-Wales that will include two separate day nurseries, training
facilities and the new headquarters of the Welsh-medium playgroup association...
12 February 2004
Childcare industry leaders have called on the
Government to review pay and subsidies in Scotland. Figures published last week
by the Scottish Executive revealed that more than one-third of childcare...