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The Department for Education (DfE) is consulting with the early years sector and parents on staff:child ratios, in a renewed drive to encourage providers to move to a 1:13 ratio for three- and...
Childcare facilities in maintained and independent schools are to be brought under the same regulations as the rest of the early years sector. Early years organisations have welcomed Government...
There was a time when softplay was not generally around in nurseries, particularly because it was so expensive. Yet, now it's seen as essential equipment. It really comes into its own in the baby...
Exposing children to common harmless bugs, for example at nursery, could help prevent the most common type of childhood cancer.
Funding for children with special educational needs has failed to keep pace with the rise in demand for provision, according to the National Education Union.
Gender and how to define it is rarely out of the headlines at the moment. Recent research is also prompting a rethink of what ‘gender’ means, by demolishing gender stereotypes and questioning the...
The recession has arrested the decline in childminder numbers as more families choose them over more expensive nurseries, but the support they receive has reduced, writes Mary Evans.
A unit that can help prepare new practitioners for dealing with parents and multi-agency working is examined by Mary Evans.
When it comes to resources, storage and activities, how can early years settings optimise their outdoors space – even when this is limited? By Karen Hart
Val Buckett, the head teacher of Pembury House Centre for Childhood in Tottenham, London, is not proud. 'Early Excellence is not about people coming in to admire us,' she says. 'It is an attempt to...