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For the first time early years and childcare practitioners will be able to undertake a specialist early years Level 5 QCF qualification designed primarily for people working full-time in an early...
Early years settings need to offer provision that will help sustain young children's thinking by using their own initiative, says Marion Dowling.
Poppy Cat, one of the stars of this year's World Book Day on 3 March, could be paying your nursery or playgroup a visit. Poppy Cat's adventures have filled 12 books and she has emerged as the little...
One in five children aged under eight now have access to a registered childcare place, according to Ofsted - but increased provision has also led to falling occupancy levels in day nurseries and...
By Meg Jones, childcare and early years consultant. 1 Encouragement and praise are necessary when children are practising new movements.
Some groups prefer a consistent name for acquisitions, while others prefer individuality. By Charlotte Goddard
Further to the news story 'Nurseries may quit education grant' (5 February), the issue of funding made me leave the early years sector after 15 years of working in various playgroups to work as an NVQ...
WINNER: The Children's House, Stallingborough, Lincolnshire
WINNER: The Old Station Nursery
WINNER: Openside Playhouse, Galt