A project on animals offers huge scope for children's learning across the early years curriculum and a seemingly limitless list of animals on which to focus: pets, farm animals, minibeasts, birds,...
The new resources feature 'Great stuff', in the 4 January issue of Nursery World gave an incorrect website address for standalone guttering company Creative Cascade. The correct website address is...
Most of us would say that involving children in making decisions about things that affect them is a great idea. But it's easier said than done, and too often early years staff pay only lip service to...
Look at how discrimination begins among children, parents and early years practitioners and at the way settings accommodate children to see what could be changed. Legislation and the new national...
By Nancy Boyd Webb (The Guilford Press, 36.95, ISBN 9781609186432)
One of the UK's largest nursery chains, Nord Anglia, said last week that it is reviewing its procedures after secret television footage filmed at one of its nurseries revealed severe breaches of care...
Aask any successful nursery owner the secret of their thriving business and they're almost guaranteed to say their staff team. A strong team has always been a good measure of a nursery's popularity...
All the main political parties have made interesting statements in the past week or so about their early years education and childcare policy - some straightforward, some a case of reading between the...
This week's national policy seminar held by 4Children examined the childcare gains and challenges in the five years since the report by the Childcare Commission, which set out demands for investment...
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...