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Plaid Cymru has pledged to increase free early education from 10 to 30 hours a week for all three- and four-year-olds in Wales if it wins the Assembly election next year.
* Little Angels Nursery in Cramlington, Northumberland, has won 2,500 in the North East regional heat of the Edge Employer Award. The award recognises the best employers in England offering practical...
Day nurseries in England can no longer employ any staff whose backgrounds have not been fully checked, unless there is an 'emergency' at the setting. Ofsted said last week that the prior understanding...
The first private nursery chains are taking steps into the new Neighbourhood Nurseries scheme for disadvantaged areas. Anne Wiltsher reports The 108-place Jigsaw nursery in Portsmouth, one of the...
I loved the feature about bubble wrap ('Fit to burst', 15 March). Recently I visited a nursery where one of my students was on placement. There they had laid out large sheets of bubble wrap outside...
A consultation has been launched into tax-free childcare accounts, which enable parents to receive up to £2,000 per year in Government subsidy.
Pam Beal, from the Oxfordshire Childcare Development Team, helped pilot three inclusive Let's Play schemes last summer, together with the Oxfordshire Community Project. The aim was to fill the gap in...
ICT can help to gather rounded evidence of learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage and improve practice, says Adrian Hickman.
Early years practitioners need to harness young children's natural interest in science before they absorb the negative stereotype of the 'nutty professor' from cartoons and films, claims a researcher...