'The danger comes if a childcare revolution starts to produce human storage units plagued by fast staff turnover, bad training and low pay. Gordon Brown, on the verge of announcing his ten-year plan...
Professor Jan White considers how to get children and staff outdoors and back inside again with ease
Around 2.5 million families will be able to claim up to 1,200 per child a year in tax-free childcare from 2015, under Government plans out for consultation.
Early years providers are facing a real-term cut in funding to deliver three and four-year-old places in 2015/16, amid increases to business and running costs.
In this the eleventh National Strategies feature on the Early Years Foundation Stage, Kim Porter, senior adviser at Every Child a Talker, and early years regional advisers Jonathan Doherty and Kairen...
Series guide Poor resourcing and planning are the greatest barriers to high-quality outdoor play. In this series, Jan White and Gail Ryder Richardson of Learning Through Landscapes' early years team...
The DfE has gone back on plans to put in place legislation enabling summer-born children, who delay their school start, to be automatically enrolled into a Reception class at the age of five.
Tax breaks for employer-supported childcare, including childcare vouchers, are among the new measures expected to be announced by the Chancellor in his pre-budget statement on 10 December. The move,...
Ninety per cent of parents do not want to see their children return to school immediately after the UK Government ends lockdown, according to a new survey.
The Open University has developed a free online physical development (PD) course, which is due to launch on 27 July and is now open for registration.