Organising a topic on My home may appear deceptively simple but, as this issue of Nursery Topics will show, it is a project that needs a lot of planning and is a subject that has to be dealt with...
Could it be that the worst is over for the private nursery sector, in terms of their fears for their survival? Certainly, several speakers at last week's Laing and Buisson conference thought that...
What a week it's been for news in the early years education and care sector, with the launch of the final Early Years Foundation Stage materials, a damning report into the low success rates for early...
It's hard to remember when a Government appointment was met with quite such an enthusiastic welcome. The news that Lesley Staggs has become the first-ever national director of the Foundation Stage is...
At last the ten-year strategy for childcare has been unveiled by Chancellor Gordon Brown (see News, page 4). The 90-odd pages of Choice for parents, the best start for children contain much of...
The introduction of child tagging technology in nurseries around the UK does not have quite the same sinister undertones as the use of internet cameras, but it does seem to be a gimmick at best and to...
The establishment of another organisation to represent nanny agencies has been criticised by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (see News, page 4). REC believes the Association of Nanny...
The Foundation Stage Profile national results for 2004 have been released (see News, page 4). But will publication of percentages of children working towards, meeting or exceeding early learning goals...
Revelations from the Soham murder trial about how a man with many allegations of rape and underage sex against him managed to get a job as a primary school caretaker should lead to some changes in the...
There are always different ways of looking at things, and Government reports tend to be more open to interpretation than most. Take the new research into childcare and early years providers that has...