A popular foundation course in childcare is catching them early, and reaching those who thought it was too late, says Mary Evans Students in schools and colleges around the country are signing up for...
The new Child Care and Education qualifications offer modular options and more focused work, as Mary Evans finds.
A new set of guidelines for everyone working with babies and toddlers draws together research and guidance from several countries. Juliet Hancock explains what it's designed to offer 'It is the...
A local authority that refused to let a private daycare provider administer the nursery education grant on the grounds that it wanted three- and four-year-olds to take up surplus places in the...
An early years coaching programme is rolling out nationally after a huge leap in outcomes was recorded among a pilot group of children.
Working for a nursery chain is the secret to career progression say these four early years practitioners, who have all stayed loyal to their group. By Gabriella Jozwiak
Support for fathers-to-be includes a course from charity Future Men, which focuses on the emotional, as well as practical, elements of being a dad. By Meredith Jones Russell
Anne-Marie Tassoni and Penny Tassoni explain the purpose of asking questions of children, and what they should entail
Do you really know what child-initiated learning looks like? Mary Evans identifies further training directions, in the first of a new series on improving skills to meet EYFS requirements.