At last the national standards for daycare have been published - creeping out into the world in the huge shadow of the general election announcement the same day (see News, page 4). A quick glance...
The news that the education select committee report on the early years has called for all staff to be qualified to at least NVQ3, with leaders at graduate level, within ten years should cheer...
Six months on from the last Nursery Chains and uncertainty in the private sector remains. The UK's nursery groups (see League table, page 21) still feel that Government-funded initiatives are proving...
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...
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.
It is time that investment and resources were made available to deliver an effective national NVQ programme, says Michael Thompson, managing director of nursery chain Child Base Ihave been a strong...
This project recognises that: * settings should be constantly resourced and organised in such a way as to offer learning opportunities across all areas of the Foundation Stage curriculum
T-Levels, the right 'F' word and GDP-argh in the latest behind-the-scenes column from Nursery World and NDNA