The Department for Education has published a step-by-step guide to childminder agencies.
Hiring a live-in nanny is ‘considerably cheaper’ than employing a nanny who lives outside the family home, although demand for live-in nannies is falling, a new survey finds.
The Early Years Foundation Stage will not be fully operational until September 2008, but already training plans are swinging into action and practitioners are starting to consider how their work with...
Shares in the world's largest private childcare provider fell dramatically last week, casting speculation over the future of its UK operations.
This is an excellent science experiment that will show children how plants and flowers need water and how they consume it. Resources
Festivals play an important part in the calendar of early years settings. In this new series, we list forthcoming festivals and sources of information about them. Harvest thanksgiving
Combine mathematical thinking with colour awareness in a chart. Resources
By the time this issue of Nursery World is published, MPs will no doubt have voted against the amendment to the Children and Young Persons Bill seeking to outlaw physical punishment in the home.