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Being outdoors provides children with developmental benefits that cannot be replicated indoors. Kathryn Solly reveals how to get it right
In an increasingly risk-averse culture, early years expert Helen Tovey explores what risk is, and its benefits
Mary Dickins is an early years consultant (All Together Consultancy/London Met. University)
A child's communication begins at home, and early years practitioners need to promote it there and in partnership with the nursery, as Helen Moylett explains.
The Big Lottery Fund has launched a multi-million-pound package that puts young people across the UK at the 'heart of its delivery'. Individuals, groups of young people and voluntary organisations can...
A website to help local authorities create child-friendly communities in areas such as planning, designing and policing has been launched by Play England and SkillsActive.
Small resources can help children to develop some big ideas in their imaginative play, as Jane Drake explains Long-term planning
The number of childminders with a good or outstanding Ofsted result has risen by 17 per cent in the last two years, according to the National Childminding Association's membership survey.
Make-believe is integral to a child's development, and the more open-ended the resources, the greater the scope for imaginative play, says Helen Bromley.
With the aim to extend the free entitlement to 40 per cent of all two-year-olds by 2015, nurseries are having to think long and hard about how they can equip themselves to deliver this, as it will...