Thinking of extending for the 30 hours? Shannon Hawthorne, press and public affairs director at Pre-school Learning Alliance, gives the lowdown on the Government’s capital funding scheme
Imogen Edmunds, managing director of Redwing Solutions, which specialises in HR for early years settings, on the different types of training.
Margaret Hodge has returned to the early years sector to find that the issue of low pay for childcare staff is still very much live and kicking. She was tackled about the problems during her speech to...
Playday, the annual celebration of children's play, taking place on 2 August, has as this year's theme 'Play, naturally', says the Children's Play Council. The CPC will research the loss of play...
The Government has unveiled guidance to protect playing fields and open spaces from being sold to developers. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said its Planning Policy Guidance (PPG 17) for...
Parents will need to work 16 hours a week to be eligible for 30 hours of free childcare from 2017, the Chancellor has confirmed.
Occasionally, an encounter between two people plus a chance observation can change the world. It is no exaggeration to make this claim for what happened when the psychologist Jean Piaget met Susan...
The new national occupational standards for classroom assistants (see News, page 4) are welcome for several reasons. The standards, and the forthcoming NVQs/SVQs that will follow, will be a big step...