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Early Years Professional status is for people who are qualified, with experience. The Government states that in the near future all managers must have a level 4 qualification, so now is the time for...
In this concluding part of the series, Des Forrest and Kathy Brodie outline how you can set up your staff to succeed by ensuring each individual is working to their strengths.
Young children will love it when you sit down to share the new 'Peekaboo!' books from Dorling Kindersley, with appealing touch-and-feel and lift-the-flap features. Both Baby Says and Bedtime are...
Have oodles of fun keeping children busy with an art kit from Bostik full of pipe cleaners, beads, felt shapes, pom poms, straws and Blu-Tack, plus an instruction leaflet suggesting lots of things to...
The new national occupational standards for classroom assistants (see News, page 4) are welcome for several reasons. The standards, and the forthcoming NVQs/SVQs that will follow, will be a big step...
Most of us would say that involving children in making decisions about things that affect them is a great idea. But it's easier said than done, and too often early years staff pay only lip service to...
Training continues to be at the top of the early years education and childcare agenda, with the search for suitable candidates to go forward for Early Years Professional status now under way (see...
Ofsted's consultation on its plans for revamping childcare inspections was rather brief, given the importance of the changes, but there was a great deal of agreement that the main proposals were on...
The recent move by a primary school in south London to open a baby unit, funded and run by the school itself, raises quite a few issues, especially with current concerns about how local authorities...
What is empathy, how does it develop in the early years, and what can practitioners and parents do to support it? Ruth Thomson explains