In this true story, an experienced nanny tells Helen Kewley about how a false accusation blackened her reputation with employment agencies 'I couldn't believe what had just happened to me. As I sat in...
Childbase Partnership teams and families in 44 nurseries have raised more than £165,000 and 9,267kg in food donations – equivalent to the weight of two African elephants – to support the Trussell...
An ethos of mutual gain in college studying and working practice is described by Dr Cath Arnold, who leads on the MA in Integrated Provision for Families, based at the Pen Green Centre.
As a parent you may have already encountered the seemingly endless 'why' questions. While sometimes these questions are a way of grabbing our attention, they are more often a sign that a child is...
I am a nursery teacher in a small local authority-run primary school. I have the pleasure of working with a fully-qualified, very experienced and knowledgeable nursery nurse. We work as a team and...
The deadline for this year's children's art competition run by Nursery World and the Daycare Trust to mark National Childcare Week has been extended to 7 May due to the May Bank Holiday. To enter,...
Celebrity culture will have attracted many readers to the headlines in national newspapers this month about Zoe Ball's nanny being killed tragically after a car crash. It turned out that the 'nanny',...
There are many ways to think about time, says Alison Clark in this edited extract of her book Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child