Outdoor furniture 'requiring zero maintenance' will be launched at this year's Education Show (at NEC, Birmingham, 20-22 March)
Early years workers who belong to Unison Scotland are set to receive a 4 per cent pay rise from April 2003, in the final instalment of a four-year-pay deal with local authorities. This means that...
Child Safety Week, an annual initiative organised by the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT), is taking place between 23 and 29 June, on the theme of 'One moment changes everything'. The message of...
An Ofsted survey has found that 107 out of 139 local authorities are making a good contribution towards developing better outcomes for the majority of children and young people. But 'Narrowing the...
Thousands of new playworkers are needed to staff the boom in out-of-school clubs, but they will have to be the right people, says Anne Wiltsher
The Government is pressing ahead with a consultation on changes to childcare ratios in England, despite widespread opposition from early years providers and parents to the plans.
Thank you for printing the news story 'Ofsted advises staff leaving SARS areas' (8 May). I was one of 20 people to have returned recently from a two-week early years study tour to China. I was...
A well-organised storytime stimulates children's imagination, enhances their language and social skills - and is fun for the storyteller and those listening Storytime is potentially one of the most...
Those who lived through the bleak days of the Woodhead/Blunkett Education regime of the late 1990s scarcely imagined that early-years policy-making could be any more Dark-Aged, but in this respect the...