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Like other private nursery providers in Kent, we are very angry about the conditions we are required to sign up to. Why is Kent so different in its approach to other local authorities? We suspect it...
After years of stalling on the issue of nanny registration, the Government is finally making moves for some kind of action, seemingly prompted by the low take-up of the home childcarer scheme (see...
This week, more research has been released showing that downward pressure from a results-driven National Curriculum is leading to inappropriate practice in the Foundation Stage, particularly in...
A mother in Cheltenham has given birth to twins five years apart, reported the Daily Express. Reuben Blake is five years older than his twin sister Floren, who was born in November. Their parents...
The Government's proposals to track pre-school children with parents in jail, on the grounds that they are at a higher risk of becoming criminals themselves, have been met with concern by childcare...
The new report for Sure Start on children's transition from the Foundation Stage to Key Stage 1, carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research, will provide welcome ammunition for...
Both nature and nurture are at work when children re-enact key stages in the evolution of our species, says Philip Waters, in the latest article in his series on play types. I find it very alarming on...
Proof of the strength of feeling against Key Stage 1 SATs has come in a survey for the National Union of Teachers (see News, page 9). More than nine out of ten teachers say they would support a...
* A brand new Katie Morag book, Katie Morag and the Riddles, is published next week. In this latest story, Katie Morag accidentally breaks her mother's beads at home and has a tantrum at school,...
A high-flying working mother in an office meeting takes a frantic call from her new nanny. The baby's had a fit and they're at the hospital. Soon the baby is dead from being shaken and the nanny is on...