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News that the Government has finally fulfilled its promise and launched a consultation into mandatory reporting and acting on child abuse and neglect is clearly a welcome move.
The Government's aim of having every early years practitioner qualified to at least Level 3 by 2015 is looking far from achievable, given the funding crisis for childcare work-based courses and...
'Learning to read or to write one's name at three is not necessarily an indication of future academic potential. Einstein didn't learn to read until he was seven' Sue Mardel, primary inspector for...
Choices in Childcare, which was mentioned in the feature 'Juggling act' (15 March), has asked us to point out that it has changed its name to the National Association of Children's Information...
(Photograph) - Three-year-old Dickon Fox shows off his scary creation at an Easter scarecrow-making session at Skidby Mill near Cottingham, East Yorkshire. The event was part of a week of springtime...
The rebranding of the department overseeing early years is sending worrying signals
The extension of the nursery education grant for three- and four-year-olds, from 33 to 38 weeks a year from 1 April, should, on the face of it, be good news for non-maintained providers. But examine...
A setting rescued from closure by parents is providing outstanding provision with creative and critical thinking at the heart of its practice. Marianne Sargent explains