News

Education News: Extended schools - Caution over workload of governors

Childcare: Draft guidance outlines how services must work together

NHS cash crisis: Preventative services cut after mental health funding slashed

Social Care News: Fostering standards - Carers to be safety 'whistleblowers'

National childcare strategy: Providers launch review to address sustainability

Disability: Ministers promise 340m in deal to transform services

Workforce: Survey reveals training barriers

Childcare: More cash needed for free entitlement

Residential care: Work begins to redraft national contract before September

Early Years Foundation Stage: Local authorities must put targets in place by 2008

Social Care: Child abuse - Links with faith communities needed

Policy & Practice: Policy into practice - The challenge of improving early years services

Health: Palliative care - Funding is needed to save services

Extended schools: Free after-school activities planned

Opinion: Soapbox - We must work with parents in the early years