One London local authority is considering allowing some early years providers to delay extending the free entitlement to 15 hours until April 2011, Nursery World has learned.
Providing the 15 hours and responding to the changing needs of parents has, as this column has shown, required much effort by settings to transform their business, workforce, and sometimes premises....
A consultation on the criteria for the new Level 2 early education qualifications has been released by the Department for Education.
Sunscreen with a protective factor of SPF 15 is not strong enough to protect children and adults against sunburn and the risk of skin cancer, a medical journal has warned.
Primary 2 pupils from publicly funded schools show improved performance in the National Survey of 5-14 Attainment Levels. Results in the school years 1998/99 and 1999/2000 in maths, reading and...
Karen Hart unpicks Standard 2 of the Early Years Teacher criteria and suggests how practitioners might best demonstrate it.
What are the 20 largest nursery chains in the UK up to? Alison Mercer on who did what in the past six months. Since summer 2001, when we first compiled our league table of the 20 largest nursery...