The case of Vanessa George, the Plymouth nursery worker accused of child abuse and making and distributing indecent images of young children, has shocked and horrified the early years sector (see...
While the number of total childcare places has been rising in recent years, the sharp decline in the ranks of childminders has gone almost unnoticed (see News, page 4).
It is absurd and unhelpful when adults encourage children to use incorrect terminology and euphemisms for their body parts, explains Caroline Vollans
The new Channel 4 programme, 'Train Your Baby Like a Dog', is emblematic of attitudes to young children that need to change.
We have six copies of the latest Bob the Builder video, 'Bob Live' to give away to Nursery World readers. The 60min video was recorded during an 80 date tour of the UK earlier this year and includes...
We have one wooden bucket balance (Hope, 39.95) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'bucket balance', to the address on page...
'The number of children starting school with poor speaking and listening skills should cause us all to worry, and the numbers are going up.' Alan Wells, director of the Basic Skills Agency, on the...
We have two tyrannosaurus rex puppets (Asco, Pounds 68.50 each) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'T-rex puppet', to the...
The national bookgifting scheme has been preserved in reduced form. Viv Hampshire looks at the benefits it still offers children.