Our approach to reading can make a real difference to how under-threes engage, says Charlotte Goddard
Initial findings on the impact of 600 hours of funded provision for three-year-olds in Scotland show that an increase in hours ‘may help close the gap’ in outcomes.
Local authorities will receive a share of 167m in funding designed to boost out-of-hours services offered in schools, as part of the Government's extended services subsidy.
Nurseries can now tender for the School Direct programme, an initiative to train Early Years Teachers by giving nurseries more control over the training of their workforce.
An Edinburgh nursery chain has created a recipe book to raise money for the charity Sick Kids Foundation.
Digital storybooks add a fascinating new element to using narratives. Marianne Sargent provides a step-by-step guide to creating them.
New training initiatives promise to deliver a more diverse, dynamic and integrated workforce. Karen Faux explores the key developments that will boost professionalism and open up new career...
Early years providers and organisations have slammed the Government’s decision to supply coronavirus home testing kits to maintained nurseries, but not to private and voluntary settings.
How can training managers who are designing in-house CPD ensure their programmes meet the needs of the workforce, have a lasting effect, and are based on current issues and evidence? Meredith Jones...
The new Child Care and Education qualifications offer modular options and more focused work, as Mary Evans finds.