Further to the news stories on the inquest into the death of five-month-old Thomas Egan as the result of an allergic reaction at a Jigsaw day nursery (News, 30 January and 6 February), it is not good...
In the face of much concern about some aspects of the draft Early Years Foundation Stage, welcome news came this week that the Department for Education and Skills is proposing to put back the...
'Gaelic should not be allowed to wither and die. There is clearly scope for developing Gaelic-medium education so that young people are immersed as quickly and effectively as possible in the tongue.'...
The European scheme that provides free milk to about 1.2m children in two-thirds of English state schools will continue to be subsidised by the Government, ministers announced last week, after a...
For a long time, the protests about the provision in the national care standards to allow childminders to smack the children in their care and smoke in front of them with parental permission seemed to...
Great news for the many early years practitioners who care for the rising number of babies and toddlers in daycare settings, with the launch of Birth to Three Matters: a framework to support children...
What excellent news that three more national organisations are joining forces to campaign for teacher assessment and the scrapping of tests for six- and seven-year-old children in England ('Alliance...
I agree with the findings of the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses (PANN) survey that we nursery nurses are undervalued in the workplace (News, 19 April). Our salaries alone reflect this,...
The world's smallest cowboy, two-year-old Royce Gill, is to compete in a rodeo with his pony Maybelline, reported the Daily Mail.
I felt urged to write after reading 'Nurseries stressed by snap inspections' (News, 18 August). In May our nursery had an unannounced Ofsted inspection, and I see this new approach as a refreshing...