Nursery World - All nurseries should have early years teachers, charity says

Children's charity Save the Children is calling for every nursery in England to have a qualified early years teacher by 2020.

Leading figures in child development and neuroscience are backing the charity’s call for the Government to do more to to invest in good-quality childcare.

A new scientific briefing from Save the Children and the Institute of Child Health at University College, London, Lighting Up Young Brains, says that toddlers’ brains form connections at double the rate of adults, and that the pre-school years are a critical time for the brain to develop key skills such as speech and language.

Research carried out for the charity highlights how it is not just a child’s genes that determine their brain and language development during pre-school years, and that parents, carers and childcare workers play a crucial role.

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