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There are clear benefits for disadvantaged children spending up to 20 hours per week in early years provision, Sutton Trust study finds.
In the first of a new series, Jan Dubiel considers the meaning of the characteristics of effective teaching and learning, highlighted in the Early Years Foundation Stage review
Early years practitioners are caught between what policymakers and educationalists mean by readiness for school, as David Whitebread and Sue Bingham explain.
In the first of a two-part series on pre-term babies, Anne O’Connor takes a look at new research that sheds a light on the extent to which early birth affects children in later life
Thoughtful practitioners will identify what may be preventing children from doing their best, as Chris Dukes and Maggie Smith demonstrate.
* Bright Stars Pre-School in Plymouth had been on the site of the town's Prince Rock Primary School for about 15 years when by chance the supervisor Gina Reed heard in 2002 that the then headteacher...
Identifying children's relationships with the adults in their home is no longer a matter of Bob's your uncle, says Mary Evans Family life in Britain today is often much more complicated than the...
In the 12 months since Nursery Chains was last published, nursery groups have been living with the twin challenges of implementing the Early Years Foundation Stage and the economic crisis.
The 20 biggest nursery chains provide around a tenth of all nursery places in the UK, including local authority provision, according to a survey in the supplement Nursery Chains, published with...
Creating enabling environments to promote the physical development of babies and young children is the main focus in the first of a three-part series by Clare Crowther. Photographs by Paul Box at...