This week, Nursery World is delighted to bring you the best and most comprehensive coverage around of the Government's response to the Early Years Foundation Stage consultation. This includes news of...
The recent move by a primary school in south London to open a baby unit, funded and run by the school itself, raises quite a few issues, especially with current concerns about how local authorities...
With money from the Transformation Fund equating to 500 per worker in the early years sector, it is not going to achieve miracles (see News, page 4). However, there are some interesting suggestions in...
After a year of relatively little activity in terms of nursery group acquisitions and mergers, 2006 has finished with a definite bang - witness the 70m sale of Busy Bees to the Australian giant ABC...
As the days get longer and brighter, and spring is in the air, you could well start to notice that your setting is in need of sprucing up. Perhaps your paintwork is peeling, your carpet is wearing...
Are we getting any closer to understanding childhood obesity? And what should early years practitioners be doing to help prevent it? Professor Pinki Sahota offers expert advice.
CACHE has been named as an awarding body for the new specialist diploma in Society, Health and Development, to be offered at Levels 1, 2 and 3 from September 2008. The diploma is one of 14 introduced...
Like it or not, nurseries are going to have to find ways to work with the changes to staffing ratios and their links to qualification levels. Mary Evans hears what some managers think about it.
Childcare ratios have been a hot topic since former minister Liz Truss opened this particular Pandora’s Box in 2013. Jo Parkes looks at what we can learn from comparable systems abroad
Singing belongs in every nursery, says Community Playthings' new resource, What Happens in the Baby Room? Supporting under-2s practitioners