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Margaret Hodge's appointment as minister for children continued to attract a barrage of criticism last week from the press and opposition MPs (see News, page 4). One unfortunate consequence of the...
After many years of lobbying by childcare organisations, the Government's proposals to extend tax breaks for employer-supported childcare look set to make significant advances (see News, page 4). Tax...
However rewarding it is to work with children, there are times when all practitioners feel they are struggling, especially when new legislation adds to an already heavy burden of regulation and...
Children will chatter 'automatically' even as babies (see case study, page 19) and as they become more fluent, talkers will constantly ask 'why?' and be curious about everything around them.
Details of the new birth-to-five framework that emerged in the Childcare Bill last week caused an outcry about 'baby curriculum madness'. The Daily Mail's front-page headline said, 'Toddlers taught to...
Letter of the week wins 30 worth of children's books I agree with Irene Russell's opinion (In My View, 25 August) that most children who turn four in August are not ready to start school in September....
Each year, the Heinemann and Nursery World Childcare Student of the Year Award seems to attract more and higher-quality entries as the drive to transform the early years workforce and improve...
Ofsted's consultation on its plans for revamping childcare inspections was rather brief, given the importance of the changes, but there was a great deal of agreement that the main proposals were on...
Some interesting issues are raised by the guidance on developing children's centres which has just been published by the Sure Start unit (see News, page 4). Not least is the expectation that more than...
The former nursery nurses from Newcastle who have just been awarded substantial libel damages have been living through what must be every childcare worker's worst nightmare - to be branded a child...