As Nursery World reaches the grand old age of 80, the early years education and childcare sector is at a crucial point in its development. The Ten-Year Strategy is rolling out, the Childcare Bill has...
In the first of a four-part series, Debi Keyte-Hartland explores the idea of ‘intelligent materials’, and how they can be used to effectively support children’s creativity
Can charity-run children's services keep up their good work when secure, long-term funding is denied? Simon Vevers reports The Government wants voluntary sector organisations to play a central role in...
Alongside or apart from what adults teach them, children will represent and explore mathematical ideas with their own creative methods, as Elizabeth Carruthers and Maulfry Worthington explain.
With careful planning, ICT can be productive and fun, as a school in Manchester discovered, says Jenny Benjamin
Nicole Weinstein looks at the English Hubs programme, which is currently seeing more than 1,000 schools across the country receive intensive support for their teaching of reading to Reception and Year...
Promoting childcare as a service and a source of jobs is the aim of recent projects in ethnic minority communities. <B> Mary Evans </B> reports
Membership organisations representing different childcarers are becoming big players by opening up their own nurseries and family centres, as Mary Evans reports Heads would turn if a football team...
Government measures to support childcare should be extended to poor children who live outside disadvantaged areas, says the Daycare Trust.
New Labour still sees young people as needing discipline rather than services, says our weeekly columnist Beatrix Campbell Tony Blair's fingerprints are all over the Government's much-delayed Youth...