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Sorting items by different properties and comparing them is a skill that you can observe the children learning to use with increasing sophistication, as Sheila Ebbutt and Carole Skinner demonstrate.
As this highly significant bill enters its final stages in Parliament, we ask Family and Childcare Trust policy and public affairs expert Adam Butler some key questions.
Policy tensions and political motives create barriers to improving childcare, says Chris Barnham.
An equal opportunities policy is no longer a statutory obligation, but ensuring that everyone gets a fair chance is central to good practice. Babette Brown and Vicky Hutchin explain how.
Policy makers need to engage more deeply with what research is telling us about young children's development
Children's charity NCH is to change its name to Action for Children from September. The charity says it is aiming to raise its public profile, increase its voluntary income and focus more on...
Last week marked the beginning of party conference season. All the parties know that they have to speak to and for women to stand a chance of winning in 2015. This means that childcare will...
Encouraged by Government, more employers want to help their staff with childcare, but what does this mean for providers? Simon Vevers investigates Childcare is increasingly becoming part of the...
Nurseries which exclusively serve deprived areas may be less effective in breaking a cycle of underachievement than settings where there are children from varied backgrounds, according to a...
What is true ‘free-flow play’, and when is children’s ‘involvement’ in their learning not actually worthwhile engagement? Dr Julian Grenier unpicks the theories in the context of best practice