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Sure Start's own beginnings perhaps didn't live up to the programme's name, being rather shaky and unclear, but since 1999 the Government's scheme to improve the health and well-being of children in...
Use these ten key questions as starting points for discussing good practice on promoting physical development at a staff meeting or with parents and carers. 1 Can children move spontaneously between...
The developmental characteristics of four- and five-year-old pre-schoolers' drawing The drawings of 17 children in the USwere analysed at ages four and five. At both ages the most commonly used...
The SENCO is far more than a legal necessity. Karen Faux looks at the benefits a policy of inclusiveness can bring a nursery chain Nursery chains have a huge opportunity when it comes to inclusion....
A Sure Start-funded project in Edinburgh is getting children off to the right start at nursery by encouraging parents' involvement in their education. Two 'parent workers' attached to three nursery...
Enrich a child's language skills by talking about books, say Claire Bates and Helen Roscoe, Suffolk County Council Early Years and Childcare Service
A new briefing paper from the NDNA outlines the challenges for practitioners considering what is appropriate contact and gives pointers for best practice
Find out what the courses leading to three new qualifications for childcarers involve, as Mary Evans talks to one of the first students
Further to Annette McGullion's letter (16 May), I felt she took both Helen Wright's and my name in vain. My original letter (25 April) was concerned with the low pay and status of teaching assistants,...
Nurseries need to achieve the highest standards in order to keep customers loyal, and conscientious settings will always want to be improving their practice.