ExceleRate Illinois helps families make more informed choices about their children's early childhood education and care,” Bethany Patten, director of the IDHS Division of Early Childhood, said in a ...

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Watten Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) setting, run by local childcare charity CALA (Care and Learning Alliance), received ...

A HELENSBURGH nursery that has been suffering from staffing issues has been rated "weak" by inspectors. Stepping Stones Nursery on West King Street was reviewed by officials from Education Scotland ...

Each year in the UK, 400 children are diagnosed with liver disease. There is currently no cure for childhood liver disease – ...

Having qualified in 2010 from Sparklers Private Nursery as an apprentice, Ms Muir has built her career at Stirches Primary School ELC and was appointed to lead Burgh's Early Years Centre in 2022. She ...

Nursery owners have warned Falkirk Council’s plan to cut the ... she is worried that it will be difficult to fill future places without the guarantee that children will get funded ELC places once they ...

Susan Hill, the nursery’s owner, said: “We can scarcely believe that the council could hold us in such contempt and treat us in this way. “We have been delivering high-quality funded ELC (early ...

The Scottish Government was warned by West Lothian almost a decade ago that new childcare policies could create to an “unsustainable” service for nursery children. Councillors on the Education ...

Dr Vandana Gandhi, CEO and Founder of British Orchard Nursery, reinforced the vision ... Others early learning centres (ELC) also welcomed KHDA’s phased implementation strategy and aim to ...