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All schools in Wales have been told to draw up a policy on bullying in consultation with staff, pupils, parents and governors. The Welsh Assembly last week published a guidance document on combating...
A training project to help early years practitioners assess the development of children with English as an additional language has proved highly effective. Julie Cigman explains
Celebrity culture will have attracted many readers to the headlines in national newspapers this month about Zoe Ball's nanny being killed tragically after a car crash. It turned out that the 'nanny',...
The National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations has launched A beginner's guide to Children and Families' Workforce Development. Written by Zoe Mundy of Home Start UK, the free guide aims...
More early years settings are glad they let children of different ages mingle together through the day. They tell Annette Rawstrone why.
A project that boosted learning outcomes for babies also helped nursery staff make great strides in their practice, as explained by Donna Luck, Claire Stevenson and Veronica Lawrence, who devised the...
Pre-school Learning Alliance's latest publication, The New Child in Focus, explains the benefits to all parties of records of achievement or learning journeys.
Making children feel secure and content is essential, but settings often have a narrow view of how this should be achieved - creating an environment of forced gaiety, for example, which although...
Local authorities around the country are clawing back money for unused free entitlement hours for three and four-year-olds, and telling nurseries to bill parents for the lost funding.
Early years practitioners should reflect on how the quality of the relationships they establish with the children in their care will influence the child's emotional development and ability to respond...