Just one in five private, voluntary or independent full daycare settings employs an early years professional, a survey carried out for the previous Government suggests.
Strong opposition from the childcare sector over concerns that a proportionate system of inspection will 'not provide sufficient assurance of safety and security of children' has failed to move the...
Ofsted could help boost gender equality by rating settings on how they engage with fathers, campaigners claim.
Early years settings are paying ever greater attention to the quality of provision for children under three, and practice has come a long way since the introduction of the Birth to Three Matters...
1. Choose a child with special educational needs and work out the timescale within which the passport needs to be done in order to be ready before the child leaves your setting. 2. Decide on the areas...
I would like to advise Jan Jeffery (Letters, 10 March) to re-read my letter (24 February). At no point did I claim that all private day nurseries exist purely as profit-making machines. However, we...
I am writing regarding the recent coverage editorially and on the Letters page of Nursery World of two subjects - Halloween and Santa Claus. I was outraged at the number of practitioners who said...
It's time young children stopped being used as guinea pigs for public entertainment.
Check if all areas of provision in your setting promote creativity, by asking yourself: Does role play provision offer: * opportunities to observe adults undertaking home and community roles?