The new minister for Early Education, Olivia Bailey, has visited her first settings a week into her new role. Olivia Bailey, ...

Campaign group Pregnant Then Screwed set up a pop-up nursery outside the Scottish Parliament today to highlight the childcare ...

Education, health and social care organisations have come together to form a new coalition responding to the growing crisis ...

The Netherlands-based childcare provider has bought Nature Trail Nursery group in the North-West of England. With the deal, ...

Olivia Bailey, MP for Reading West and Mid Berkshire, is expected to replace Stephen Morgan as the new minister for early ...

Early years settings that offer woodwork provision for children are being urged to take part in a survey to determine its educational value.

A new initiative to help teachers better support families going through a separation has been launched as research shows many are ‘dragged’ into the fallout of family break-ups, which causes ...

The parents of Genevieve Meehan, who died after being strapped face down to a beanbag to sleep at Tiny Toes Nursery in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, are calling for CCTV in all nurseries and for Ofsted to ...

Understanding how children's environments affect their development is more important than ever with AI on the horizon ...

Ofsted’s new early years inspection toolkit outlines the areas under which settings will be evaluated against from November and the inspectorate’s expectations.

Ofsted’s ‘blunt’ one word-judgement is to be replaced by a five-point grading scale across a range of evaluation areas for ...

The sector has welcomed Ofsted’s more ‘nuanced approach’ to early years inspections that sees the single effectiveness grade replaced with a five-point sliding scale over seven evaluation areas.