Early years staff need more training about Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) families in order to understand their culture and provide them with more flexible childcare arrangements, delegates at a...
Childcare settings are being invited to do something amazing this February to mark World Orphan Week (WOW).
Early years education and care services should be fully integrated and co-ordinated by a single government department to promote social inclusion and help up-skill the workforce, says a new report.
Libraries and books are still the most valuable and inescapable tools of the student's trade One of the things you may be worried about is the amount of reading you will be expected to do. You may be...
A mix of practical new resources for early years settings are reviewed by Ruth Thomson.
A quarter of children already have an idea about what they want to be by the time they are five, new research from the National Childminding Association suggests.
The attainment gap between rich and poor Reception-age children has stagnated for seven years, new analysis from the Education Policy Institute has found.
Increasing paid paternity leave to six weeks could reduce the gender pay gap and help equalise men and women’s participation in the labour market, suggests new research.
Staff working in nurseries that have adopted relaxed two-year-old ratios feel ‘overwhelmed’ and are struggling to support children with their emotional development and toilet training, finds new...
Up to 30,000 nursery workers and teaching assistants are taking industrial action on Wednesday, in what could be the largest walkout since the 1926 General Strike. Dave Prentis from Unison explains...