Value of Childcare — Report
High quality childcare can help children to flourish, whatever their family circumstances. It can help parents to flourish, too, knowing that their children are being well-cared for while they go
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Professor Iram Siraj to lead government childcare review
A leading academic has been tasked with heading up a review of the childcare workforce as part of “ambitious” Scottish Government plans to transform early learning. Professor Iram Siraj is
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Gingerbread warns over discriminatory childcare policy
The Government’s new childcare policy discriminates against the lowest earners and will hold many single parents back from going to work, a charity has warned. Gingerbread is concerned that the
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Plans to close children’s centres across Essex move closer
A restructuring of early years education delivery has been agreed by Essex County Council’s. The ECC cabinet decided in a meeting last week that the proposal which will close some
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Views sought in Ofsted consultation on childminder agency inspections
Ofsted is from today seeking views on how childminder agencies should be inspected. The government’s Children and Families Bill 2013 will allow for the creation of childminder agencies. They will
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Career Profile – Childcare Inspector
Childcare inspectors make sure the quality of childcare for children from birth to eight years is as good as it can be. Their inspections include crèches, childminders and school care.
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New funding could create 2,000 childcare jobs in scotland
New investment by the government in Scotland could create as many as 2,000 full or part time childcare jobs, according to a Member of the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish government
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Scottish Government provides £460,000 for extra early years training
Childcare training in Scotland is receiving a £460,000 boost from the Scottish government for post-graduate and professional development places. This will fund extra opportunities for early years training for teachers
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Kent County Council confirms closure of 12 children’s centres
Kent County Council has confirmed that the axe will fall on twelve of the county’s children’s centres and further twenty see their hours cut. For those that will close, services
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New childcare facility opens in Connah’s Quay
A Welsh Government minister was on hand to help cut the turf for a new Flintshire childcare centre. Vaughan Gething AM, Deputy Minister for Tackling Poverty, cut the first sod
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