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Being outdoors provides children with developmental benefits that cannot be replicated indoors. Kathryn Solly reveals how to get it right
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.
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)
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...
Small resources can help children to develop some big ideas in their imaginative play, as Jane Drake explains Long-term planning
In part 2 of our series, we look at how settings in Scotland are coping with the country’s funded offer. By Leah Jones
By Rob Williams, chief executive of BLISS - the premature baby charity If you happen to be in the Netherlands when you give birth to a premature baby born at less than 25 weeks' gestation, you will...
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.