The Welsh Government deserves plaudits for its bravery in implementing the play-based Foundation Phase for threeto seven-year-olds - radical indeed compared to the way that things are progressing...
Going for a new job and need to test your know-how? Try our true or false quiz. By Meg Jones, childcare and early years consultant 1 The amount of sleep needed by young children is as varied as that...
All children in France will start nursery school education at the age of three from September 2019.
Let children's imaginations fly high, while steering their learning with activities based on a favourite story book as suggested by early years adviser Judith Stevens.
The Family Nurse Partnership programme is helping younger parents to cope and improving parenting practices, an independent evaluation has found.
The true scale of the funding shortfall for childcare places in the early years sector is revealed in new research from the Pre-School Learning Alliance. Ruth Thomson takes a look at the numbers.
The free Asian Child Protection Helpline run by the NSPCC has just celebrated its second anniversary after handling more than 1,500 calls since its launch in November 2001. A quarter of the calls...
More primary school children across the country are to benefit from a free healthy school lunch, children's secretary Ed Balls announced this week.
Plans to extend the free early years entitlement for thousands more two-year-olds are among the measures to improve social mobility in New Opportunities.