It is perhaps not surprising that nurseries have won praise from Ofsted and the Food Standards Agency for providing better food education and having higher nutritional standards than primary schools...
Childminders should be left in no doubt about their importance to the Government's National Childcare Strategy after this week's announcement of a 20m scheme to support new entrants to the profession...
Ofsted's report into the performance of Early Excellence Centres (News, page 6, last week) has highlighted some problems with leadership and management, an issue that is examined further in this...
There are now a whole host of opportunities open to those who want to become childminders, and our eight-page special pull-out this week explores the development of this form of childcare as a career....
The frustration of English nursery owners over long delays in criminal records checks for new employees is evident. The situation in England looks to be not half so bad as that in Scotland, however...
Children will chatter 'automatically' even as babies (see case study, page 19) and as they become more fluent, talkers will constantly ask 'why?' and be curious about everything around them.
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...