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Have oodles of fun keeping children busy with an art kit from Bostik full of pipe cleaners, beads, felt shapes, pom poms, straws and Blu-Tack, plus an instruction leaflet suggesting lots of things to...
Social enterprise could solve the problem of sustainable childcare provision, according to the charity 4Children. Its new manifesto, 'Creating new solutions', argues that while start-up funding for...
Poor-quality provision for under-fives has been identified in a 'significant minority' of cases by Osted inspections of independent schools in England, according to a report published last week by the...
Ofsted's decision to publish inspection reports for childminders on the internet, but not to reveal their full addresses, seems to strike a good balance in terms of making information available...
I am in two minds over Ofsted's proposal to put information about childminders in England on the internet (News, 3 April). In one way, I don't agree with this, as it's important to protect the...
The Government's 'cross-cutting' review of childcare policy which has finally been published makes for fascinating reading (see News, page 4), not least for the acknowledgement that 'important...
Use squares, rectangles, circles and triangles to introduce fun learning opportunities. Helen Shelbourne shapes up activities Adult-led activities
Further to the news story about the NSPCC's Full Stop campaign, (7 March), I would like to point out that childcare providers do indeed report instances of child abuse to the appropriate authorities....