Let children get in touch with their senses by making things to feel, sniff, hear and view in the outdoor area. Miranda Walker starts with easily accessible resources children may well be more alert...
How noisy is your workplace? From February next year the new European Noise Directive will come into force, setting decibel limits and requiring 'noise risk assessments' (see News, page 8). There's no...
The Montessori Schools Association (MSA) has set up a helpline for nurseries struggling to understand how the new rules for the free entitlement for three- and four-year-olds will affect them when the...
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Mathematical development and music go hand in hand, with the latter enabling us to take pleasure in exploring the abstract subject, says Linda Pound
Two nursery nurses accused of child abuse have won the legal fight to clear their names, but the cost is still being paid by children and society, argues Professor Frank Furedi With their reputations...
In this issue of Nursery World, we report on the Government's review of health visiting practice, which many of our readers may be unaware is happening.
Why the ‘containing scheme’ is an important part of play and learning in the early years, and how settings can appropriately resource for it. By Nicole Weinstein
A playwork specialist who advised on child protection issues and was a former school governor is facing jail after admitting to making nearly 400 pictures of child pornography.
As she moves on to the charitable sector, leading private nursery provider Susan Hay looks at 16 years of progress in UK childcare and at what urgently remains to be done As she moves on to the...