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The new SEN Code of Practice will include pre-school children for the first time from January next year. In a new mini series, Collette Drifte explains how to prepare for it
Early years settings need to offer provision that will help sustain young children's thinking by using their own initiative, says Marion Dowling.
It is rare indeed to find a good news story about wages and conditions for early years professionals, but the Nottinghamshire nursery nurse pay deal appears to be just that. Our Special Report,...
How should I talk to my baby? Taking turns to make noises is the first step towards having a conversation. Copy your baby's babbling noises, then look at them and wait for a 'reply'. Later on, babies...
Communication, language and music are intrinsically linked, and it is important to understand this in the early years, writes Linda Pound
Holiday childcare costs for parents in England have risen by 10 per cent in the past year, and provision is inadequate, the Daycare Trust said this week.
A new campaign launched by the Child Poverty Action Group is calling on the Government to ensure that the benefits debate focuses on the needs of ordinary families.
One nursery's new owners have revamped and expanded it while remaining open, says Karen Faux
Sure Start's own beginnings perhaps didn't live up to the programme's name, being rather shaky and unclear, but since 1999 the Government's scheme to improve the health and well-being of children in...
The developmental characteristics of four- and five-year-old pre-schoolers' drawing The drawings of 17 children in the USwere analysed at ages four and five. At both ages the most commonly used...