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Early years settings will be inspected under a new common inspection framework alongside schools and further education colleges, in plans put out for consultation by Ofsted today.
Our series on planning in the long, medium and short term looks at how practitioners can be prepared to build on children's interests, as Jane Drake explains Long-term planning
Last week, the jostling between the early years sector and the Government about the introduction of the 30-hour free childcare policy turned rather rougher.
Leaked policy proposals for education are clearly election-focused, which means that the early years sector doesn't get a look-in
Sector leaders have welcomed Scottish childcare reforms, with plans to double free provision by 2020 and make funding ‘follow the child’.
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The current workforce is facing a ‘ticking timebomb’ of staff shortages combined with falling qualifications levels and an increasing reliance on unpaid staff, the Education Policy Institute has...
The Sure Start programme has achieved a great deal and become a vote-winner, but it has 'lost the babies' along the way, its former director Naomi Eisenstadt says.
There has been plenty of outraged reaction to the prospect of schools offering provision for disadvantaged two-year-olds, particularly from private sector nurseries and early years experts.
Nursery capacity in Britain is far outstripping demand, with more than one-tenth of nursery places now vacant, according to a survey published last week. The Laing and Buisson survey of more than 700...