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'Training the trainers' has become something of a buzz phrase of late, and it is likely to stay on everyone's lips as the drive to reform the early years workforce steps up. If there aren't enough...
A new toolkit has been created for early years educators, local authorities and schools that are interested in setting up their own Early Years Hub.
A Kids 1st Nursery is being investigated by Ofsted, following an incident at the setting where a nine-month-old girl lost the tip of her finger after it was trapped under a door.
Nursery nurse members of the public sector union Unison in Scotland moved a step closer to industrial action last week after talks broke down with their local authority employers. A delegate meeting...
Thanks to 20,000 of grant funding a remote part of north Cumbria has new local childcare facility, saving parents from long commutes. Brewston pre-school, which meets five mornings a week, is run as a...
Local authority-run schools continue to ‘outshine’ those converted to academies, according to new research by the Local Government Association (LGA).
The Children's Play Council has launched its 15m Big Lottery-funded Play England project (see Nursery World, 2 March) with a dedicated website, www.playengland.org.uk, and an advice line, 020 7843...
Outgoing Barnardo's chief executive Martin Narey has blamed the falling number of children being adopted on the prejudice of local authorities who will not let white parents adopt children of other...
Professor Siraj-Blatchford says, 'Artificially "teaching" synthetic phonics in large groups of four-year-olds will ultimately be anti-literacy development' (News, 6 April). Surely this is what is...
Further to the news story about the childcare course run by International Correspondence Schools ('500 for uncredited course', 18 September), I was disappointed to discover when I finished the course...