Enabling children to experience joy can help support learning and reduce stress and anxiety.Linda Pound offers some insight into the steps practitioners can take to embrace this approachPhotographs at...
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The Sure Start Unit offers acomprehensive guide to qualifications for working in early years, childcare and playwork. See www.surestart.gov.uk/_doc/ index.cfm?document=1181 or call 0845 602 2260 and...
Contrasts between early years provision in different countries can help us reflect on whether education is for teaching children readiness for life, argue David Whitebread and Sue Bingham.
Revelations from the Soham murder trial about how a man with many allegations of rape and underage sex against him managed to get a job as a primary school caretaker should lead to some changes in the...