When the Government revealed that it is considering making it mandatory for all early years staff to be qualified to at least level 3 (Nursery World, 4 February), it caused quite a stir.
It's all go in the private nursery sector with nursery chains continuing to consolidate and purchase other groups. Following the publication of the last Nursery Chains supplement in June we had to...
* We have ten copies of the Dear Zoo 25th anniversary edition (Campbell Books, 4.99, ISBN 0230015255) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or...
Misunderstandings about the nature of extended schools seem to abound- that they involve keeping children cooped up in school for a mandatory 10 hours a day, or that teachers will be working as...
In the final part of this series, Ann Marie Christian sets out the changes to social work from an early years perspective, and looks at the controversies
The drive to improve the level of qualifications in the early years and childcare sector is welcome indeed, and the need to have level 3 staff in supervisory positions under the national care...
Take the children to an after-school club or start your own, as Jan Hurst suggests in the last of our series on organised activities Encouraging the child in your charge to join a club, after school...
The debate over the pros and cons of the Early Years Foundation Stage continues to rage in these pages and elsewhere - see our Letters (page 17) and In My View (this page), for a start.
Why is touch so important for babies and young children? Because it is linked to healthy physical and emotional development, Anne O’Connor explains
It would seem to be quite a risk for the Coalition Government to ask Frank 'think the unthinkable' Field to carry out a review of poverty and life chances. Here is a character who was a regular...