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I have just read your article 'Leaps and bounds' (15 August) concerning the development of nursery chains. All this money and development is not always a good thing. I have worked for several years as...
By Graham Allen, Labour MP for Nottingham North. Making sure that children aged nought to two get the right start in life is the best sort of early intervention that we could make.
Families challenging the Department for Education’s introduction of the Reception baseline assessment have been refused permission to take the case to a full judicial review.
Young children display geographical awareness from an early age, and a new report on early years mapping is rich with links to curriculum and ideas for activities, finds Meredith Jones Russell
We’re going to the beach this July, with cover feature on beach schools, plus babies mental health, a new sustainability framework, and the concept of curriculum in the early years (ahead of our...
Understanding how young children think is crucial to good practice. In the first of a new series, early years consultant Marion Dowling explores why.
The early years landscape is changing fast, with the past few years seeing the introduction of free nursery education for three-and four-year-olds, the Foundation Stage, Sure Start, and the Early...
It is amazing to think that the Effective Provision of Pre-School Education project began in 1997, and has just reported on outcomes at age 16 for the children it has followed (see our feature on...
All very well checking out the nannies, but what about the families? Lollipop Childcare, which opened this month in Windsor, Berkshire, is offering nannies a new service - reference-checked families....
A nursery owner in Cumbria has warned that another year of chaos in the criminal records check and childcare inspection systems will put providers under such stress that some will be unable to cope....