A continuing fall in the number of providers offering childcare services in Scotland is revealed in a new report published by The Care Inspectorate today. The ‘Early Learning and Childcare
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The cost of bringing up children has soared in the last year, leaving families on the minimum wage 18 per cent short of the basic amount needed to live on.
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An independent review and consultation of early learning and childcare, and out of school care is running until 30 September 2014 and views of individuals and organisations with an interest
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Sam Gyimah, MP for East Surrey, who was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education last week, has confirmed on Twitter he will be responsible for
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A target to ensure young children in the poorest parts of Wales have a health visitor and free childcare is close to being met, two years early. More than 31,000
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As part of ‘Bright Start’, the NI Executive’s Strategy for Affordable and Integrated Childcare, the Health and Social Care Board & DHSSPS, has developed a free Childcare and Family Support
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A North Ayrshire out of school care service has been given recommendations for improvement after it was graded ‘weak’ for the quality of care and support it provides to children.
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A new report has highlighted the positive impact of the new early years degree-level qualification for leaders and managers of the early years and childcare workforce in Scotland. The report
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In 2007 Adrian Ward was commissioned by the National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care to write a paper on Leadership in Residential Child Care. The paper is available
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At the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care’s (SIRCC) conference in June, Ann McSorley, SSSC Senior Adviser in the Workforce Development and Planning Team held a workshop to let people
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