Plans to slash funding for early years apprentices have been upheld by the Government, despite an outcry.
For some children, enclosed areas are essential to support their cognitive development, says Elizabeth Jarman, in the first of a series looking at the kinds of spaces early years settings need to...
PROFESSIONAL NANNY/NANNYTAX SURVEY OF UK NANNY WAGES What are employers paying for a nanny - and what do they expect in return? Stephen Vahrman interprets the figures
Two surveys show that many settings will not be able to offer parents places for the extended entitlements, as the start of the roll-out of the expanded policy nears. By Catherine Gaunt
From small beginnings in 1926, Nursery World has charted the rise and rise of public provision Give a chance
How each room at one setting has embraced loose-parts play and the use of open-ended resources. By Annette Rawstrone
Under the arches or in a giant aviary, it's a long way from when the water supply was a pond School buildings
Quality is a big issue in Ofsted's latest annual report on childcare. Ruth Thomson rounds up the main findings.
More than eight in ten early years settings are struggling to recruit staff and half of them are having to turn away new parents because of staff shortages, sector research suggests.