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The link between immature motor skills and lower educational performance has been overlooked, says Sally Goddard Blythe
Proposals for childcare vouchers may not offer immediate relief but their benefits will be felt in the long term says Susan McGhee, commercial director of Bertram Nursery Group
Childminder agencies are due to become law in a year's time, and the Government's proposals are causing increasing alarm.
It is time to highlight the essentials of effective early years practice in schools, says Nancy Stewart
Ignoring the importance of the early years creates a vicious circle where children are always the losers, says trainer Ann Vincent
Vidhya Alakeson fears current childcare policy will not ultimately boost quality
The Royal baby may be in line for succession as monarch of the whole UK, but devolution seems to be increasingly afoot in terms of policies on early years.
Support staff in schools have for years been treated as the poor relations in the education system, with low and unequal pay, often only in term-time, bad working conditions and few training...
Dr Katherine Runswick-Cole is a senior research fellow in disability studies and psychology at the Research Institute for Health and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University.
If new practitioners are trained in a new qualification that doesn't even mention play, will they be the informed professionals that children deserve?