International awards honour architecture for children, says Ruth Thomson.
Community Playthings' new resource 'Play and the Revised EYFS' has advice on how to create enabling environments
More and more studies are showing the importance to health of access to natural green environments, reports Annette Rawstrone
With all their good intentions, children's centres may still let down their users through design faults that can be altered reasonably easily. Manager Colette Tait shows how.
Winner - Little Barn Owls Nursery & Farm School, Horsham, West Sussex
The importance of making spaces in which children and their carers can have freedom to think, talk and create was stressed at a major early years conference at Nottingham University earlier this...
Understanding both physical and psychological environments is key when creating areas for two-year-olds. Julia Manning-Morton explains how settings' management of this impacts on children's...
In looking to ease the transition to nursery, settings can also find ways to engage with the children currently in their care. Alison Anderson shares her experience devising a programme with this goal...