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The sustained fall in the number of nursery schools over the past years has been a crying shame. Their role as beacons of excellent practice and in developing great nursery practitioners has not saved...
Many settings have entered into a partnership agreement to deliver the 15 hours flexible free entitlement.
The Code of Practice for the free entitlement for three- and four-year-olds is published today, giving parents the right for the first time to ask their local authority to find them free childcare...
Are Government plans to bring in an experience-based route for early years practitioners to countin staff-to-child ratios as a Level 3 a good idea for the sector? We asked two experts to share their...
Kicking off a new series exploring the revised Development Matters guidance, Dr Julian Grenier looks at the first two key features of effective practice within the document: ‘The best for every child’...
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...
A steering group made up of high-profile early years experts has been set up by the Department for Education ahead of the launch of their policy statement in the spring.
In the first of a four-part series, Debi Keyte-Hartland explores the idea of ‘intelligent materials’, and how they can be used to effectively support children’s creativity
If your early years services and staff deserve recognition, make sure you enter the Nursery World Awards 2009. The closing date is 5 June: www.nurseryworldawards.com
Attend our Nursery World Show seminar 'Maths in the Early Years: more than just numbers?' for expert advice on best practice.