Minister backs scheme to encourage more men into early years careers
More men are being encouraged to work in nurseries as a charity aims to challenge stereotypes over the male role in early education. Men currently make up just 3% of
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Report: Evidence from providers’ finances from survey of childcare and early years 2018
Several important changes in childcare policy in England in recent years have had financial implications for providers of Early Years education and childcare. These include the introduction of 30 hours
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Report: Review of care services for early learning and childcare 2014-2017 (Scotland)
The number of children experiencing early learning and childcare in Scotland has increased to more than 290,000. A report by the Care Inspectorate, published today, showed the number of children
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Resource: Food Matters – Good practice guide for nurseries and other childcare settings
Nurseries, childminders and other early learning and childcare settings can make a huge difference in supporting youngsters to eat well and enjoy well balanced and nutritious food. Eating well is
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Need for both parents to work to get 30 hours free childcare ‘should be dropped’
The Government has been urged to drop the need for both parents to be in work to qualify for 30 hours of free childcare a week to help close the
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Children’s Minister insists doubling free childcare provision is deliverable
It is not fair to accuse local authorities of failing to deliver on a pledge to double free childcare provision ahead of schedule, a Government minister has said. The Scottish
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Childminder shook two-year-old and caused head injuries, judges conclude
A childminder shook a two-year-girl and caused severe head injuries, judges have concluded. The youngster, who suffered a skull fracture, had been in the woman’s sole care for 28 hours
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New campaign urges childcare providers to promote ‘gender-equal play’
A new campaign has been launched in a bid to promote more “gender-equal play” in nurseries and childcare. The Care Inspectorate – the body which inspects registered childcare providers –
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Over-stretched health visitors fear possible tragedies involving children
Two fifths of health visitors fear that they are “so stretched” that avoidable tragedies involving children could occur, a new poll suggests. A new poll of 1,200 health visitors in
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Call for scrapping of high earner’s childcare subsidies to fund low-income families
High earners should have childcare subsidies scrapped to give a boost to low-income families under Universal Credit, the architects of the reforms have said. The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ)
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