Young children display geographical awareness from an early age, and a new report on early years mapping is rich with links to curriculum and ideas for activities, finds Meredith Jones Russell
Boris Johnson has said he plans to cut childcare costs by making it easier to become a childminder.
Working parents on lower incomes are being forced into debt, have had to reduce their hours or quit their jobs altogether due to problems affording childcare, reveals new research.
The number of young people starting apprenticeships has fallen far below pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest data from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER).
A disused fire station and a former care home are among the premises being redeveloped as neighbourhood nurseries with the help of more than 900,000 awarded by the New Opportunities Fund last week....
The latest Government research on early years provision reveals a complex picture, with better qualified staff, more loss-making providers, but a rising numbers of places, says Ruth Thomson.
By Melissa Jones, author of Interiors for Under Fives I was born in the 1960s, when the world was changing for adolescents, but the under-fives didn't get out much. Decorating at home involved the odd...
Curriculum development and self-evaluation are examined in new workshops, writes Karen Faux.