As projects like Sure Start and Early Excellence expand, more and more early years practitioners are working together with other professionals like social workers, adult educators and health visitors....
Early years professionals in Wales can have their say in setting the National Assembly's priorities for the next two years. The Assembly last week invited people and organisations in Wales to air...
We heard with sadness that Bessie Wright died earlier this month after a long illness. Bessie trained as a nursery school teacher at Homerton College in Cambridge in 1931. She began teaching in a new...
The latest ten local education authorities in England to be inspected jointly with the Audit Commission this autumn were announced last week by Ofsted. They are the London boroughs of Barnet,...
* A national steering group to support early language development for young children across the UK is to be set up next month by the National Literacy Trust (NLT) to ensure children aged nought to...
Next time you reach for the jar of 'instant' in the staff room you might want to consider stocking up with Percol Original Instant Coffee Granules. Percol was thefirst UK company to sell coffee that...
Day nurseries and playgroups in Northern Ireland have been told to develop 'a culture of safety' to deter people from trying to abuse children within or through their settings and to be vigilant for...
By Gila Falkus, speech and language therapist, team leader/ professional manager (Hammersmith & Fulham PCT) Early years workers have a vital role in helping children to develop their communication...
Nurseries and early years settings will have to carry out 'noise risk assessments' to ensure they are not damaging the hearing of their staff, Europe's health and safety agency said last week. From...
A programme to combat poverty and promote education, health and economic prosperity in deprived areas in Wales has been extended.