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The battle for Reception? Is this most crucial of years about curriculum or about skills/child development? In this Best Practice Focus, we consider the latest on the controversial Reception year...
By Melanie Pilcher, policy and standards manager at the PreSchool Learning Alliance (Pre-School Learning Alliance, 9.99 for members, ISBN 9781907478024)
Jo Parkes looks at what the Government’s policy has been for the early years sector post-pandemic, and if a Labour government would change things
The Daycare Trust has called for a new type of childcare worker whose training and employment conditions mirror that of a school teacher, to staff the growing number of integrated services that...
What is good practice when it comes to managing staff? The Village Nursery Group, based around Manchester, has some tips. By Hannah Crown
The recent ‘Bold Beginnings’ report by Ofsted has only added to the uncertainty about what is expected of children in their first year of school. Charlotte Goddard investigates
Experts and settings reveal how the values are being taught in theory and in practice. By Charlotte Goddard
Some food for thought in your professional career. Playwork Theory and Practice. Edited by Fraser Brown. (Open University Press, 17.99, 01280 823388)
Nine nurseries have been ‘named and shamed’ on the latest minimum wage offenders list. How did they get there, and how easy was it to fall foul of the rules? Ruth Stokes reports