From an early years perspective, it was frustrating that significant recommendations for the primary curriculum did not survive the end of this parliament. It remains to be seen whether Sir Jim Rose's...
The number of child casualties on Britain's roads fell by six per cent last year, according to figures from the Department for Transport, Local Government and Regions. To highlight a new Government...
(Photograph) - Councillor Caroline Pigeon shares a book at the Newington Library in Southwark, London, to celebrate National Storytelling Week, which ran from 26 January to 2 February. All Southwark...
(Photograph) - Green-fingered Ben Hart, two, exhibits his flower boot creation at Bluebells Day Nursery's fun day on 2 September. Children from the West Sussex nursery planted flowers at a garden...
SkillsActive, the sector skills council for the playwork sector, is to launch a consultation to review the playwork national occupational standards in January 2007. The review will aim to update the...
A tasty dish and some variations from London Early Years Foundation
The much-criticised occupational map showing vocational qualifications for the route into Education and Childcare has been updated by the Institute for Apprenticeships.
Torbay in Devon has the highest proportion of outstanding and good childminders, nurseries and pre-schools, with more than nine in ten early years providers achieving at least a good grade.
May I congratulate Caroline D'Arcy on achieving her NVQ qualification after a lot of hard work (Letters, 20 September).
The childcare sector's largest private training provider has hit out at plans to halve the funding available to students aged 19 and over to reach NVQ level 3 from this April. The new funding regime...