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It's been quite a week, with the Children's Workforce Strategy consultation finally being unleashed, along with the Ofsted consultation on further changes to early years inspections (see News). Oh, and...

Developing 'a world-class children's workforce' in Britain is the goal of a Government consultation published last week. The Children's Workforce Strategy sets out plans for reform at local and national...

(Photograph) - Heather Stephenson, age four, came face to face with the star of 'Katherine and the Fairyhill' at Scotland's 21st annual Puppet Animation Festival in Angus. Children created their...

Pre-election proposals for funding childcare and maternity leave unveiled last week by the Conservative Party targeted working parents and poorer families. Details of the 'Supporting Parents' scheme announced by party...

(Photograph) - Staff and children from Limelight Family Learning Centre in the London Borough of Lewisham celebrate the opening of Limelight Wildlife Garden, which provides natural habitats for newts, hedgehogs,...

School meals are to receive a £280m funding boost to improve quality over the next three years, most of which will go directly to schools and local education authorities to...

The Government is likely to miss its target of cutting child poverty by a quarter by the end of this year, despite relative child poverty falling by 100,000 last year....

The Parenting Across Scotland project has been given £300,000 of funding by the Scottish Executive, allowing it to continue until 2007. The project is led by the charity Children 1st....

The charity 4Children is to set up and run nine flagship children's centres catering for children from nought to 16 as part of its new regional development strategy. Working in...

Playworkers have greeted with a sigh of relief the announcement of a £155m programme for children's play in England, paid for by the Big Lottery Fund. Only two months ago...