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Disquiet among teachers and early years practitioners over the transition between the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 has been noted in two reports for the Government. The Foundation Stage Profile...
The 600,000 local government workers going on strike next week have been driven to it by the cost of living, according to a Newcastle nursery nurse.
One per cent of five-and six-year-olds were permanently excluded from primary schools in England last year, Government figures published last week have revealed. The statistics show the number of...
The children's artwork at St Oswald's Pre-school Learning Centre so impressed a visiting member of the local council staff that it has been reproduced for the Co Durham town's residents to enjoy The...
The sector has expressed concern that the DfE is pressing ahead with plans for a Reception Baseline check following the news that NFER has been chosen to design and deliver the assessment.
Vidhya Alakeson fears current childcare policy will not ultimately boost quality
More than £63.5 million of Government money to deliver three- and four-year-old places was unspent by local authorities in 2018/19, with just 15 per cent of the funding returned to childcare...
Filming tips take 2 As part of an introduction to using moving images in the nursery, get children to talk about their favourite films - why they like them, who the main characters are and how the...
If nannies were regulated and registered it could bring them more money and better job prospects, argues Stephen Vahrman From the first of this month, new National Minimum Wage rates have come into...