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As a building block of learning to read, phonics should be taught during everyday fun activities There can be no doubt that phonics is an essential part of learning to read. However, it is important...
How should practitioners best be observing children, assessing progress and letting this knowledge inform their planning, asks Charlotte Goddard
The Government's aim of having every early years practitioner qualified to at least Level 3 by 2015 is looking far from achievable, given the funding crisis for childcare work-based courses and...
The first-ever children's centre time bank to encourage users to engage with the wider community by exchanging their time has been launched in partnership with early years organisations.
This month sees the news we've all been waiting for, and it's good - nannies' earnings continue to rise. Let's hope that this year nobody who isn't a nanny expresses shock at the news, as if home...
An essential guide in association with Jelf and PACEY
Making children in day nurseries wear electronic tags has been criticised as a 'gimmick' that is fuelling paranoia in parents. Tagging systems similar in design to the anti-theft tags used in clothes...
Many of the problems in safeguarding cases – lack of professional curiosity, inadequate information sharing – would be solved with the development of a competent workforce, finds safeguarding expert...
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...