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Effective risk assessment is the key to ensuring excitement as well as safety for children, advises Miranda Walker, who sets out a practical guide. Why risk assess?
Singing has a long tradition in nurseries, thanks largely to the work of Friedrich Froebel, and the practice is intimate and complex, explain Sacha Powell, Kathy Goouch and Louie Werth
Families will save up to £4,600 per child each year in an independent Scotland, according to first minister Alex Salmond.
New to Speechmark's ColorCards range is the Sequences: 4-Step set of cards to help develop language and social skills. They consist of 12 four-step sequences that focus on familiar activities in the...
The Scottish Executive has put up for consultation its ambitious plans for Scotland's early years workforce, with new management qualifications, higher numbers of graduate-level staff and a single...
Building dens is a natural and important pastime in children's social and emotional development. Anne O'Connor explores how adults can support this form of play while respecting children's need for...
Develop manipulative skills for mark-making with an assortment of resources in the office role-play area, says Jane Drake Children need a wide range of opportunities for developing the skills of...
There's a distinct end-of-term feeling about this week, with some very important Government initiatives hurrying into the open before everybody heads off on holiday. The long-delayed Youth Green Paper...
Isolation in both rural and urban communities is being overcome by prize-winning Sure Start initiatives. Judith Napier reports Community isolation can be a barrier to effective early years provision....
Story retold by Anne O'Connor; illustrations by Georgie Birkett; story ideas, page 20. Once there was an old man. In his garden, he planted a little turnip.