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The benefits for children of playing in a mixed age group are explored by Anne O'Connor, with advice for practitioners on reinforcing it
The Government is to launch a new national index to ensure that practitioners delivering services to children can share relevant information. The index has been developed in response to...
By Nigel Williams, Northern Ireland commissioner for children There is increasing evidence that it is nursery schools who are facing some of the most difficult problems in coping with challenging...
Go back in time for children to get a sense of themselves and to explore concepts with activities across the early years curriculum suggested by Sheila Ebbutt.
Following children's interests sparked a project to build an eco-friendly bird hide at a setting in Liverpool. Marianne Sargent explains.
Our regular columnist Alan Bentley suspects that 'old Labour' dogma is driving Government policy Like many operators of children's nurseries in the private sector, I am sometimes at a loss to...
The early years sector must be prepared to stand up to critics.
Babies understand the concept of numbers and counting from as early as 18 months, according to new research.
Co-operative Childcare has introduced science gardens - through a creative process involving all 50 of its settings. Meredith Jones Russell reports.
In the first of a four-part series on the adult role in supporting early learning, Julie Fisher looks at the different purposes of learning initiated by the adult or the child