The first National Children's Day UK on 15 May will to celebrate the rights and freedom of British children.
The Daycare Trust is urging early years settings to reach out to fathers and grandparents as this year's National Childcare Week gets underway (2-9 July 2012).
How can practitioners approach difficult situations in a truly ethical way? Carla Solvason reports
Careful planning will give children the first-hand experiences they need to start learning about writing, says Julian Grenier
Congratulations to all the students who have achieved their degrees in Early Childhood Studies, and well done, Nursery World, for such up-to-date and relevant articles as 'My student life' (17 April)....
I was concerned to read Germaine Greer's comment about childcarers (Quote of the week, 22 August). When considering formal, that is, paid-for childcare in the UK today, her statement could hardly be...
Environment and resources are increasingly recognised as a vital component of early years provision, and there's plenty to help you make sure you're offering the best service in this week's issue of...
The many voices in the early years sector raised against enforcing formal phonics instruction for children younger than five appear to have been ignored. Jim Rose's review, which contains much good...
Scotland and Wales have better levels of child wellbeing than England, claims a statistician's review of a controversial Unicef report that placed the UK's levels of child wellbeing at the bottom of a...
Children need to learn only 100 words before moving straight on to reading books, a new study claims. Researchers at Warwick University Institute of Education analysed more than 900,000 words from...