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Having worked in a private day nursery for more than five years, I am finding it increasingly difficult to understand why certain people even bother having children. I have met several parents who,...
Parents of SEN children are still struggling after recent reforms, reports Charlotte Goddard
The Children's Bill sets out a clear vision of integrated services for children and parents at all levels of policy and practice. However, the support services for parents under development are still...
Early years organisations have been responding to the Ofsted consultation on the Education Inspection Framework and handbooks that has just closed.
The sensory experience of messy play has far-reaching benefits for brain development, creativity and risk-taking, says Anne O'Connor
In the wake of the recent spate of terrorist attacks in London and Manchester, some settings are revising their emergency policies. Meredith Jones Russell reports
I was reading the feature on an early years ICT project on dinosaurs ('Walking with dinosaurs', 27 November), and I noticed a mistake. I have been an archaeologist for five years. Archaeologists study...
Embedding training in practice is crucial, write Anne Oldfield and Sarah Emerson, and assessment can be a useful way to promote this
I have read, with interest, recent letters about the concept of teachers working in nurseries to raise the standard of the care and education provided. My first point is that many teachers may well be...