Making authentic links between reading and talking has been helping early years practitioners and teachers to develop children's communication, language and literacy. Di Chilvers explains.
Ofsted has revealed the reasoning behind making ‘requires improvement’ childminders, unlike nurseries, wait for the next inspection cycle for their re-inspection.
Five-year-olds could be subjected to testing, under plans being considered by the Department for Education.
A consultation on improving standards of home schooling has been launched by the Department for Education (DfE), while it also plans to consult on a voluntary code for out-of-school 'education'...
A father has taken over the nursery his children attended from Busy Bees, the UK's largest childcare provider.
Children’s charities have raised concerns over the impact the Chancellor's announcement to freeze working age benefits will have on millions of families.
An Essex nursery has won an award from the British Safety Council for the sixth year in a row. Springlands Day Nursery in Colchester was one of about 1,000 large and small enterprises throughout the...
(Photograph) - Chef James Lowe cooked up a storm when he joined children at the Happy Jays Nursery on Clifton Moor in York. Mr Lowe, who owns the York restaurant Villa Italia and has two daughters at...
A music manifesto aiming to reverse two decades of decline in music education was launched last week by the Government and a coalition of 70 organisations. It promises music tuition for every pupil,...
An ailing nursery that was in the spotlight last year when a former owner was charged with child pornography offences is set for a new start following its purchase by a local nursery chain. Brian...