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Children start to understand the world by exploring objects, writes Jools Page, Senior Early Childhood Consultant, Kent
Emeritus Professor Peter Moss, Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL, spoke last week at an event to mark 25 years since the launch of Early Studies Degrees. Here is his speech in full
With new regulations ahead on school meals, now's the time to change attitudes and practices, says Mary Whiting Almost 20 years ago, the then Government abolished the nutritional requirement for...
Early years settings need to have policies for when children argue or when behaviour gets out of hand, that the children themselves can understand, as Jennie Lindon explains Children learn how to...
Nursery chain Child Base has won praise for its employee training and development programme, Sound Foundations, from leading EPPE researcher Professor Edward Melhuish of Birkbeck College, London....
We should remember past mistakes in early years policy when trying to move forward or our youngest children will be in inappropriate environments, say Karen Wickett and Dr Verity Campbell Barr,...
Parents rely heavily on informal childcare, with two-thirds saying that their children's grandparents have been the main providers, a survey conducted for the Scottish Executive has found. Calling for...
Doing Early Childhood Research:International Perspectives on Theory and Practice. Edited by Glenda MacNaughton, Sharne A Rolfe and Iram Siraj-Blatchford. (Open University Press, 15.99, 01280 823388)....
A flurry of written questions in the House of Commons about the early years sector last week suggests the Conservative party may be beginning to take a fresh interest in the sector. Chris Grayling,...
By Mary Dickins, early years consultant (All Together Consultancy and London Metropolitan University)