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A debate in the House of Lords last week flagged up the shortage of speech and language therapists in children's services (see News, page 6). It is not that there are too few people - according to...
New research, published by the Sutton Trust, suggests that the planned expansion of the funded hours to younger children, will 'lock' out disadvantaged children from extra early years education.
By Richard Dorrance, chief executive of the Council for Awards in Child Care and Education (CACHE) In October 2000 the Government announced a consultation into the review of the National Training...
By Marion Nash, Jackie Lowe, David Leah (Routledge, 22.99, ISBN 978041569)
Evaluate your transition arrangements for children in the Foundation Stage by asking yourself these ten questions: 1 .Do children have consistency? Practitioners can work to maintain core features...
The developmental characteristics of four- and five-year-old pre-schoolers' drawing The drawings of 17 children in the USwere analysed at ages four and five. At both ages the most commonly used...
A unique structured therapy programme is changing the prospects of nursery children with speech and language delay. Ruth Thomson reports.
As the nine to five working day becomes ever less common, the need grows for childcare in what used to be called unsocial hours. Evening work, night shifts, weekend work - parents who have little...
Encouraging parents to read to their children is just one aim of the National Year of Reading. Ruth Thomson talks to one nursery chain getting in on the act themselves.
In recent years, multi-agency working has become formalised. Hannah Crown looks beyond the early years to what we can learn from national models, such as MASHs and A Better Start