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Ministers are proposing a new way of working, building on the 'co-production' process, to draw up a 'covenant' between the early years sector, the DfE and local authorities.
Four local authorities have been cited as beacons of good practice for their integrated children's services. Essex, Knowsley, West Sussex, and Telford and Wrekin received the Beacon Status award from...
Proposed changes to early years funding in England are likely to hit local authorities already struggling with declining childcare places – largely in northern England –suggests new research.
In her new book Professor Pat Preedy, with co-authors Kay Sanderson and Sir Christopher Ball, call for a new birth to seven curriculum and the scrapping of the EYFS profile
An early years approach based on Finland’s educational system is expanding across the world
Local authorities must do more to include nursery schools in a more formal and strategic way to improve the quality of nursery education locally, or risk losing their valuable expertise through...
Celebrity culture will have attracted many readers to the headlines in national newspapers this month about Zoe Ball's nanny being killed tragically after a car crash. It turned out that the 'nanny',...
Early Education and the NAHT have today written to 100 local authorities in England urging them to put on hold plans to close maintained nurseries schools in their areas.
The former president of Early Education has been awarded the CBE for services to early years education in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Jean Ensing, president of Early Education from October 1997 to...
Wales’ education minister Jeremy Miles has praised the work of early years settings as they prepare for the roll-out of the new national curriculum for three-to-16-year-olds.