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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...
A new guide calling for local authorities to ensure that early years communication is a designated responsibility within every local authority has been launched by the National Literacy Trust's early...
Work on cultural diversity can be undermined by coverage of foreign countries in the media, especially TV. Wars, riots, floods, famine and disease can all promote an image of other peoples as...
The latest ten local education authorities in England to be inspected jointly with the Audit Commission this autumn were announced last week by Ofsted. They are the London boroughs of Barnet,...
England is falling behind other European countries in the race to improve children’s health, warns a new report that makes grim predictions for the state of children's health in 2030.
Early Education and the NAHT have today written to 100 local authorities in England urging them to put on hold plans to close maintained nurseries schools in their areas.
While the rise in the number of adults being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes hit the headlines again recently, what is less reported is the sharp rise in recent years of the number of under-fives...
More local authorities have confirmed details of the funding for the 30-hour childcare pilots, with the early education entitlement and the extra childcare paid at different rates.
Using extracts from his new book on the subject, Damien Fitzgerald argues that the Government’s approach to early years policy has substantially reduced the essential focus on quality