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As soon as any kind of assessment is formalised into a league table, it will be seized upon and interpreted in a misguided manner. Just look at what has happened with SATs. So it is with the 2005...
Scotland's proposals to ban all physical punishment of children under three and to prevent any children from suffering blows to the head, shaking and the use of implements are a considerable step...
Unease is growing over some of the proposals in the Childcare Bill, with early years and childcare professionals raising their voices at several recent events (see News, page 4). There has been such a...
Liz Roberts finds out why it's good to slow down and sing with babies
The Early Years Foundation Stage was intended to represent continuity in early years practice, sharing, as it does, the same principles as its predecessors, the Foundation Stage and Birth to Three...
* The public has given strong support in three separate opinion polls to last month's strikes by 750,000 local government workers, including nursery nurses and classroom assistants. A Sky News poll...
As yet another review of childcare policy looms, early years experts are still calling for the divide between education and care to be abolished as part of a radical rethink about what we want for...
Communication difficulties could put the successful implementation of the Welsh Foundation Phase at risk, the final evaluation of the pilot of the curriculum for three- to seven-year-olds has warned...
It's easy to believe that listening to children should be a central part of the nursery philosophy, but much harder to ensure that this happens in practice. When consultation with young children...
The children's charity NCH has begun the first phase of its re-branding campaign, starting by changing its name from today (18 September) to Action for Children.