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The early years sector is increasingly moving towards ‘childcare at the expense of high-quality education’, the Sutton Trust warns.
Nurseries and other businesses in Northern Ireland have been warned not to be taken in by a mailshot from a body calling itself the 'Health and Safety Enforcement Agency'. The Department of...
The Government-commissioned evaluation of the first year of the 30 hours programme shows the impact the policy is having on childcare settings, local authorities and parents, revealing significant...
See if your boss stands guilty as charged on the nannies' most-unwanted list of thoughtless acts committed by employers, as compiled by Jan Hurst When we conducted an extensive informal survey on what...
Becoming a mother after becoming a teacher can bring new insights into the work of early years practitioners, as Phoebe Doyle found out.
* Children are portrayed as victims in nearly one in three news stories, claims a global study of newspaper coverage. The study, conducted in 24 countries by the World Association of Newspapers, found...
A food bank charity has revealed that more than 900,000 people used its food banks in the last year.
We were e-mailed last week by an early years practitioner asking why we were publishing a four-part guide to the revised Early Years Foundation Stage when the final framework has not yet been...
One of Scotland’s largest councils has admitted that fulfilling the Scottish Government’s 1,140 hour childcare offer for three- and four-year-olds will pose a ‘significant challenge’.
Principle * Providing activities based on first-hand experiences that encourage exploration, observation, problem solving, prediction, critical thinking, decision making and discussion (p82)