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More than 500 childcare places are to disappear with the demise of Scottish chain KidCare and the BBC's decision to phase out its workplace nurseries (see News, page 4). The...

Children's minister Beverley Hughes is writing to all local authority chief executives this week to ask them how they are apportioning money to early years and childcare providers. Speaking at...

Staff and parents were informed of the collapse of a leading Scottish childcare provider just hours before the service was terminated last Monday. KidCare, a not-for-profit organisation whose parent company...

The BBC is closing down its workplace nurseries in a move towards providing staff with childcare vouchers instead. The corporation has seven on-site nurseries providing 217 childcare places around the...

(Photograph) - The grounds of Lauderdale House and Waterlow Park in Highgate, London, were festooned by children in honour of this month's National Tree Dressing Week. Around 250 children from...

New fathers get attached to their baby's prams in the same way they get attached to their cars, according to a Yellow Pages poll reported in The Metro. Almost a...

Strong opposition from the childcare sector over concerns that a proportionate system of inspection will 'not provide sufficient assurance of safety and security of children' has failed to move the...

A child's neighbourhood and pre-school peer group at age seven has the biggest impact on their cognitive development, while their parents' education, family size and mother's age are the 'background...

The four working groups who will look at care provision, as outlined in the Green Paper Care Matters, have been announced by children's minister Beverley Hughes. The groups will be...

NDNA Cymru has appointedLynne Jones as skills review co-ordinator for the Childcare Wales Learning and Working Mutually partnership. She will research the state of learning and development for the childcare...