Funding has been cut and the Government has scrapped plans to boost graduate employment, so how can you attract higher-qualified staff, asks Charlotte Goddard
* This series aims to demonstrate the type of activity practitioners should provide to help children of different experiences progress towards a given goal, ie stepping stone 4. * The stepping stones...
So Margaret Hodge is not going to expand the early years sector at the expense of a workforce on low salaries ('Hodge ties expansion of childcare to pay', News, 20 November). I read this news story...
Nursery nurses are notoriously badly paid, even though their work is increasingly demanding. For many, home ownership is out of reach -a recent survey found that a pair of nursery nurses on average...
Communication, language and music are intrinsically linked, and it is important to understand this in the early years, writes Linda Pound
The North West nursery group has bought an 80-place nursery in Cheshire.
Property values in Wales could soon be zooming up, driven by a mass migration to the principality of early years teachers desperate to work under the new Foundation Phase for three-to seven-year-olds...
At last the ten-year strategy for childcare has been unveiled by Chancellor Gordon Brown (see News, page 4). The 90-odd pages of Choice for parents, the best start for children contain much of...
The introduction of child tagging technology in nurseries around the UK does not have quite the same sinister undertones as the use of internet cameras, but it does seem to be a gimmick at best and to...