In the face of much concern about some aspects of the draft Early Years Foundation Stage, welcome news came this week that the Department for Education and Skills is proposing to put back the...
More reassuring noises came from the Government in the past week about its continuing commitment to expanding childcare, as trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt took to the stage at the...
The Government's 'cross-cutting' review of childcare policy which has finally been published makes for fascinating reading (see News, page 4), not least for the acknowledgement that 'important...
The news that neither early years nor playwork have succeeded in their bids to be one of the trailblazer Sector Skills Councils (see page 4) is not a terribly encouraging start to the new year, when...
Local education authorities' approaches to provision for children with specific speech and language difficulties (SSLD) in England and Wales Reports on a national survey of LEAs and interviews with 37...
Happy New Year from everybody at Nursery World. As practitioners and policymakers get back into the swing of things and contemplate another year packed with change and development, it's a good point...
New ways of monitoring children's progress at Key Stage 1 in England have been put up for consultation by the Department for Education and Skills. Under a pilot project involving 5,000 schools,...
Nursery World's regular section about Early Years Professional Status, sponsored by CWDC, is now online at www.nurseryworld.co.uk/eypupdate.
The Government has announced it is to give 11m to 11 voluntary and community organisations to deliver national online and telephone support for family support services.