Nanny agencies will be required to confirm to parents that prospective nannies are suitable for working with children, under new employment agency regulations announced last week. The move is part of...
This week's columnist Helen Penn wants our Government to avail itself of international ambitions for childcare and education Recently I co-organised a conference in London with Professor Peter Moss...
All aspects of Physical Development need to be catered for under the revised EYFS, says Jan White.
Plan activities that will lead to the achievement of the early learning goals for physical development Three-year-olds are usually exclusively motor-active. They have been 'learning through doing'...
'Invisible' young children in their thousands could be at risk of abuse as they are fostered privately through arrangements which are not reported to officials, a charity has claimed.
The charity Shelter has launched an emergency appeal to help more than 100,000 children who will be waking up homeless this Christmas.
The Forest School ethos focuses on individual effort and achievement but its practice applies across the Foundation Stage and the curriculum Forest Schools are springing up across the UK. In Scotland,...
AREAS OF LEARNING Nursery Topics - Communications covers all six areas of learning in the English early years curriculum, but it can be easily adapted to suit the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish...