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The Association of Play Industries (API) has written to the Prime Minister and other ministers urging them to match the funding commitment to children’s play spaces pledged by Scotland’s First...
With all their good intentions, children's centres may still let down their users through design faults that can be altered reasonably easily. Manager Colette Tait shows how.
Is it time to reassess our view of the enabling environment? Turning the term on its head, an environment that enables is more than the adult and more than the child – it becomes a context for intent,...
In this true story, an experienced nanny tells Helen Kewley about how a false accusation blackened her reputation with employment agencies 'I couldn't believe what had just happened to me. As I sat in...
Making the move from nursery to primary school can throw up challenges for everyone involved, but settings can take steps to make the process easier. Rebecca Fisk suggests some methods.
'1 2 3, Where are you?' is a hide-and-seek safety game that we play on every visit to the woodland. Initially an adult will hide and the whole group will find them. Over time the groups hiding (with...
In part three of her series on the 7Cs approach to planning outdoor spaces for young children, Julie Mountain explains the importance of incorporating 'clarity' and 'challenge'.
Children gain an immense sense of achievement from creating something beautiful from a few simple sticks, says Julie Mountain.
In both the indoors and outdoors environments, loose parts are an ideal resource for involving children in maths activities, explains Shardi Vaziri