Changes are afoot for Scottish nurseries with business rates exemption coming in from 1 April and the increase to 1140 hours by 2020
The core skills, knowledge and competences needed to gain Early Years Professional (EYP) status are the subject of a draft set of standards put out for consultation by the Children's Workforce...
The Department for Education has announced it is providing up to 3m in funding to deliver a two-year programme to increase early intervention mental health support for children in the voluntary and...
Try some tasty, fragrant, noisy, squishy and fruitful activities to explore what can be experienced through the senses, with early years adviser Judith Stevens Project guide The Curriculum Guidance...
Val Buckett, the head teacher of Pembury House Centre for Childhood in Tottenham, London, is not proud. 'Early Excellence is not about people coming in to admire us,' she says. 'It is an attempt to...
What is early education and childcare for? If you follow one of the arguments in the recent report from the National Audit Office, it exists to boost results at the end of Key Stage 1.
Parents love to talk about their childcare, and these conversations can sometimes lead to something more, says Working Mum
The number of early years places has fallen by 17,800 in the last year, according to the latest Ofsted data, raising further questions over how the expanded 30 hours will be successfully delivered.
Opportunities for delivering the National Childcare Strategy in London through social enterprise solutions are considered in a new survey undertaken by the Daycare Trust on behalf of Social Enterprise...
How can parents and carers reassure children who have had their routines disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak? By Annette Rawstrone