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Amid the debate about the national evaluation of Sure Start and the review of the teaching of reading, which will lead to a focus on phonics as the primary method...

A five-year childcare strategy unveiled by the Irish government that will create a further 50,000 places by 2010 has stirred controversy by allowing most childminders to earn c10,000 a year...

(Photograph) - Children from East Prescot Road Nursery School in Liverpool have planted oak, birch and ash trees with the help of a group of visiting nursery school teachers from...

Nursery World became a media star last week, as the magazine celebrated its 80th birthday with a special edition looking back over eight decades of childcare development and advice. The...

A pre-school that was ordered to keep children indoors following complaints about excessive noise is waiting for the green light from council bosses to reinstate its outdoor play. Jigsaw Pre-school...

Sure Start budgets were revealed last week in the local authority children's services funding for 2006 to 2008. Sure Start local programme funding has been rolled into the General Sure...

Children need to learn only 100 words before moving straight on to reading books, a new study claims. Researchers at Warwick University Institute of Education analysed more than 900,000 words...

Over half of nursery schools inspected by Ofsted in 2004-05 were judged outstanding, in the latest figures revealing that 38 out of the 68 settings inspected (59 per cent) achieved...

Naomi Eisenstadt has been appointed Chief Advisor on Children's Services. She will play a key part in the Every Child Matters programme on improving the quality of policy and practice....

Children are cycling less because of fears over safety, claims a report by the National Children's Bureau. It says that the distances cycled by children under 16 have nearly halved...