We are delighted to report this week (News, page 4) that Nursery World's 'Stop the Drop' campaign over the lowering of staff qualifications in the national daycare standards has achieved a partial...
A lot hangs on the success of the Early Years Single Funding Formula to deliver sustainability when it comes to the free entitlement.
It seems that 2005 is going out with a bang rather than a whimper, with the news that Lesley Staggs is leaving her post as national director of the Foundation Stage (see News, page 4). The sound of...
National Parents' Week this week has been marked by the publication of several reports into family life today in the UK, including Making Britain Family Friendly from the National Family and Parenting...
Ask any nursery or pre-school manager what they dislike about their job and it's the bureaucracy and paperwork that usually top the list. Everybody accepts that a certain amount is necessary to...
Practitioners from a range of childcare and early years education settings had an unprecedented chance last week to question children's minister Margaret Hodge about Government policy at a round table...
The weather may be getting hotter, but the crisis over delays with criminal record checks is reaching boiling point (see News, page 4). It is appalling that with the current recruitment shortages in...
The children will love making these tactile puppets and learning some French at the same time. Each set contains two fabric faces measuring 22cm in diameter, ten Velcro facial features and six labels...
For a long time, the protests about the provision in the national care standards to allow childminders to smack the children in their care and smoke in front of them with parental permission seemed to...
The current climate is not proving too comfortable for the private nursery sector. A recent survey has shown occupancy in nurseries continuing to fall, with dangerously low levels in some parts of the...