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By Mary Dickins, early years consultant (All Together Training and Consultancy).
Sure Start's own beginnings perhaps didn't live up to the programme's name, being rather shaky and unclear, but since 1999 the Government's scheme to improve the health and well-being of children in...
Use the following questions as starting points to evaluate the ways in which you approach parental involvement. 1 To what extent do the 'Common Features of Effective Practice' and the 'Principles for...
Childcare ratios have been a hot topic since former minister Liz Truss opened this particular Pandora’s Box in 2013. Jo Parkes looks at what we can learn from comparable systems abroad
Simple physical play with a child's carer can stimulate a function that is linked fundamentally to language and sensory development, says Anne O'Connor.
* We have ten copies of the Dear Zoo 25th anniversary edition (Campbell Books, 4.99, ISBN 0230015255) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or...
You are probably already familiar with the Blue Kangaroo series of books, written by Emma Chichester-Clark and published by Andersen Press. Last autumn, the publishers released this delightful box...
Big name back-up with the individual care of locally run settings has proved a recipe for success for Casterbridge. Annette Rawstrone reports.
By Mary Dickins, early years consultant (All Together Consultancy and London Metropolitan University)
Two organisations are now offering distance learning courses for people wanting to train as childminders. Both Childcare Study, an online organisation, and the National Extension College (NEC) have...