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Raising awareness of the laws on private fostering is the focus of a campaign that began this week.
A new online resource to help local authorities and their partners develop effective children's services strategies has been launched by the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC). From 1...
A group of leading early years specialists has launched a campaign to urge practitioners and parents to fight Government plans to adopt synthetic phonics for teaching children to read in reception...
Congratulations to the nurseries and pre-schools of Kent for turning out in such force to the council's meeting about the Code of Practice on nursery education funding (see News, page 4). Some 400...
The nursery nurses' strike in Scotland is causing clashes of opinion between those who would normally see themselves as partners in caring for young children. Staff taking industrial action are...
Plans for primary schools to finish lessons at lunchtime from September, attributed to the London borough of Newham in news reports last week, have been denied by the local education authority. A...
This year's Foundation Stage Profile results make depressing but predictable reading (see News, page 4). Once again the lowest scores were in communication, language and literacy (CL&L), with boys...
I am disappointed and concerned about the proposed budget cuts to be made in the London borough of Hounslow (News, 7 February). As a nursery nurse I work alongside a newly-qualified teacher in a...
Funding for Sure Start children's centres will not be cut, Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed in his speech on the spending review.
Cedric is an endearing little character who helps children learn to count up to ten. He measures 44cm long and each segment of his body bears an embroidered number. These segments can be pulled apart...