It is a no-brainer for the Government to introduce legislation that regulates sedentary activities in order to protect children’s wellbeing
The reasons that early years practitioners are doing so much paperwork are many and varied, but there is hope for change
Scotland's proposals to ban all physical punishment of children under three and to prevent any children from suffering blows to the head, shaking and the use of implements are a considerable step...
As soon as any kind of assessment is formalised into a league table, it will be seized upon and interpreted in a misguided manner. Just look at what has happened with SATs. So it is with the 2005...
Unease is growing over some of the proposals in the Childcare Bill, with early years and childcare professionals raising their voices at several recent events (see News, page 4). There has been such a...
A proposal to provide a fixed fee state-subsidised childcare scheme for children under the age of three, based on a system operating in Quebec, Canada, has been unveiled by the Scottish National Party...
Nursery operators may be allowed to count young trainees as up to half of their accredited staff, under an amendment in Ofsted's guidance to the Government's national standards for daycare in England.
Experimenting with water wheels, creating 3D wheeled vehicles and print making, in a project on wheels by Helen Shelbourne This project outlines ideas and activities designed to help children develop...
Unknown territory lurks around the new early years qualifications.
The proportion of seven-year-olds achieving Government targets for writing has fallen by five percentage points over the past year. The latest National Curriculum Assessment of Key Stage One pupils,...