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Children's Workforce Development Council chief executive Jane Haywood (News, 13 April) implies that graduates in childhood studies will not have practical experience in childcare and will therefore...
The race is on to get Ofsted's Early Years Directorate up and running. But time is short and the issues and problems that need to be sorted out are many, as our coverage this week shows. The national...
This week's columnist Helen Penn looks at an oasis of good practice in a land of stark inequality I have been working in South Africa recently. It is a very unequal country, and nearly 10 million...
Not long ago, in 1998, when early years practitioners were questioning the sense of earlier entry into schools, Chris Woodhead vehemently opposed any suggestion that this was not in the best interests...
(Photograph) - Damon Britton, otherwise known as Dom in the TV series 'Byker Grove', plants a flower with four-year-old Oliver Thompson at the Riverside Centre Nursery in North Shields, Tyneside,...
A cross-party group of MPs has raised concerns that Department for Education ministers and senior officials prioritise schools policy over the children's agenda.
As the summer holidays roll on, it seems appropriate that much of our news coverage this week is devoted to the issue of play.
The treatment I have received from colleagues has ranged from being ignored, to conversations stopping as I walked in the room. I have also been handed Unison forms and 'asked' to 'join so that we are...
Returning to the campaign trail after just two days' paternity leave following the birth of son Donald last week, Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy was said by the Independent to joke that 'he...
Name: Viv Daly Age: 43 Current role: Children's centre manager Qualifications: NNEB, NPQICL Experience