Six weeks’ worth of holiday childcare could cost working parents nearly £500 more per child typically than the same period during school term time, a report has found. Parents across
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The Duchess of Cambridge says “addiction, self harm and suicide” could be avoided in later life if children are taught to properly manage their emotions. Speaking to a group that
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A nursery has closed temporarily due to a “probable” outbreak of E.coli. The NHS Borders Health Protection Team said it is liaising closely with Cherrytrees nursery in Hawick and colleagues
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The chief inspector of Ofsted has said she is “particularly worried” about young children’s development, with the latest reports on education recovery showing some babies are struggling to understand facial
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Parents across Britain are being squeezed by rising childcare costs and a drop in available places, according to a charity. Coram Family and Childcare’s 21st annual survey of childcare costs
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Ofsted has withdrawn guidance suggesting childminders should notify the watchdog if they have depression or have been bereaved following criticism that the requirement would be “intrusive”. The guidance, first published
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Staff at a nursery which has become embroiled in a feud with Scotland’s health secretary over a place for his daughter have said they “cannot apologise for something we haven’t
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Over the last ten years, formal childcare in the UK has steadily become unaffordable for most parents. Recent reports on a UK web-based parent survey undertaken this summer by Mumsnet
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A Scottish care home operator will invest up to £10m with the launch of a new 60-bed facility – a move that will be its biggest project to date. Mansfield
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Nicola Sturgeon will include plans for free wraparound childcare for the lowest income families as she seeks to build a “brighter and fairer” Scotland in the wake of the coronavirus
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