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The revised Early Years Foundation Stage and its Characteristics of Effective Learning provide an opportunity to change practice in Key Stage 1 - and the new Ofsted inspection framework allows...
* Nursery group Child Base is set to name its new chairman in the next few weeks, after Sir Peter Thompson, the company's co-founder, stepped down from the position in October. He remains life...
The latest Oftsed review has found steady improvements in the quality of early years education and childcare provision in daycare settings year-on-year.
One in five children aged under eight now have access to a registered childcare place, according to Ofsted - but increased provision has also led to falling occupancy levels in day nurseries and fears...
Ofsted's first national analysis of childcare provision since taking over its inspection and regulation in September 2001 seems to show cause for optimism about quality, with improvements being made...
Check out our new series – including an in-depth guide to unlocking best practice outdoors, a management four-parter focused on anti-racist leadership and a managers’ problem page, designed to tackle...
Making children in day nurseries wear electronic tags has been criticised as a 'gimmick' that is fuelling paranoia in parents. Tagging systems similar in design to the anti-theft tags used in clothes...
Ofsted's first early years report has prompted a fierce debate about the best place for children to learn. But, argues Dr Julian Grenier, we can only truly improve quality if we work together
The Pre-School Learning Alliance is to offer childminders a bespoke membership package from early next year, following the National Childminding Association's bid to attract a wider membership under a...
Next month Labour will have been in power for ten years, a decade characterised by constant change in every aspect of early years provision and childcare. Yet as our Comment (see page 31) and Special...