New research from the Pre-school Learning Alliance and Nursery World has discovered that the average hourly wage for early years professionals is less than half the median hourly wage of educational professionals.
At the Conservative Party Conference earlier this week, Education secretary Justine Greening announced six areas across England as the most challenged in terms of social mobility.
Professor Dame Sally Davies, the government’s chief medical officer, has written a letter to nurseries, urging them to raise awareness of the childhood flu immunisation programme, Nursery World reports.
A quarter of pre-school age children in Britain have their own touch-screen devices, compared to a mere 4% of children in 2012, market research company Childwise has claimed.