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Childcare ratios have been a hot topic since former minister Liz Truss opened this particular Pandora’s Box in 2013. Jo Parkes looks at what we can learn from comparable systems abroad
Dealing with teenage smokers in your setting will require sensitivity, but there are ways to tackle the issue without being heavy-handed. By Eve Boggenpoel the spectre of ill health and early death...
Tweens: What to expect from - and how to survive - your child's pre-teen years By Andrea Clifford-Poston (Oneworld, 9.99, 1-85168-380-1, 020 8855 0320) Reviewed by Deborah Sharpe, out-of-school...
What excellent news that three more national organisations are joining forces to campaign for teacher assessment and the scrapping of tests for six- and seven-year-old children in England ('Alliance...
The Government has been very keen to stress how important it is to listen to parents' views about smacking, and the results of various polls of the public are used to justify maintaining physical...
It seems that getting the language of early years education and childcare right is a struggle for Government speech writers. Take education secretary Ruth Kelly's words to the IPPR last week (see...
It was very heartening to hear Jane Cole, a member of the DfES Foundation Stage team, pledge last week that outdoor play would be accorded its proper place in the forthcoming framework covering birth...
The amount of state intervention in the lives of individuals is a particularly pointed issue in childcare and parenting, with government interference in all areas constantly referred to as 'the nanny...
Nurseries and pre-schools are being invited to join this year's Foresters Big Toddle for children's charity Barnardo's and take a sponsored half-mile walk between 1 and 21 June. Participants can keep...
The managing director of the nursery group Just Learning, Conservative MP Michael Fallon, is to step down from the role on 1 June. The new chief executive is Jonathan Bell, who was previously...