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Leading early years specialists have strongly criticised the Government over its approach to the early years, pointing out how the sector is suffering from 'policy overload' and that rather than being...
'Training the trainers' has become something of a buzz phrase of late, and it is likely to stay on everyone's lips as the drive to reform the early years workforce steps up. If there aren't enough...
Changes to how the early years workforce can develop will impinge on the quality of provision available to young children, argues Pamela Calder.
'It was important that we talked about delivering care for children rather than the politics behind the sector we came from,' says Colleen Sims, explaining how her private nursery became satellite...
Going outside to ‘do’ maths is an effective way to engage young children. Julie Mountain offers some tips
Ofsted is not responsible for formulating the policy which allows childminders in England to smack children and smoke in their presence, only for implementing it, childminders were told at a...
The Level 5 in Early Childhood Studies Steiner run by NESWEC is proving to be very rewarding for Northumberland-based Jennifer Power.
The director for early years at the Education Policy Institute says that the focus of early education has now shifted from children, to concentrate instead on promoting parental employment, which is...
We all need to do what we can to stop the spread of germs and limit the current swine flu outbreak ('Catch it, bin it, kill it', as the Government ad puts it), but often with these sorts of health...
Staff training programmes by early years providers are not a case of all present and correct, say the inspectors. <STRONG> Mary Evans </STRONG> looks at how they are getting into shape