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Pennie Akehurst, former head of the Early Years and Childcare Service at Derbyshire County Council, looks at how settings can replace the recently axed Ofsted self-evaluation form
Well done to Sunderland nursery nurse Gina Smith for grasping the latest tool of democracy and putting a petition calling for national pay scales for nursery nurses and teaching assistants on the...
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...
Nursery nurse strikes are breaking out all over the UK, as poorly paid childcare workers are striving to bring about long-awaited changes in their status and salaries (see News, page 4). Around 3,000...
What implications will providing more money for two-year-olds have for the free entitlement overall?
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...
Telling stories to young children fosters intimacy as well as developing communication skills and introducing literacy, says Jennie Lindon A few years ago I was at a conference where there was a...
Reflections Nursery in Worthing, West Sussex, is holding an exhibition this week of the children's artwork dating back to 2006 to mark the setting's fifth anniversry.
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...