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The issue of pay - the low levels - in the early years and childcare sector is never far from the top of people's minds, and, whatever the effect of the Transformation Fund money on salaries, one...
Nursery World readers can win one of five copies of the first video/DVD of 'The Cramp Twins'. Wayne and Lucien Cramp can't agree on anything. Wayne is big and bossy while Lucien is small and shy. They...
It's good news that Ofsted's annual report into childcare and early education has found standards improving as the number of places grows (see News, page 4). There is no room for complacency, however....
The Playhouse Set is suitable for babies from the age of 12 months. It features a double-sided soft playhouse with soft boy, girl and dog figures. The figures, which canbe stored in the mesh pockets...
By Graham Allen, Labour MP for Nottingham North. Making sure that children aged nought to two get the right start in life is the best sort of early intervention that we could make.
The row over the future of Montessori and Steiner qualifications remains unresolved following a meeting between CWDC and Department for Education officials and representatives from awarding bodies and...
Is everyone ready for the Early Years Foundation Stage? Well, up to a point, as our survey of attitudes to the EYFS and Early Years Professionals carried out by The Consortium shows (see News, page...
The news that the education select committee report on the early years has called for all staff to be qualified to at least NVQ3, with leaders at graduate level, within ten years should cheer...
By Brian Cooper, owner of Meir Park Day Nursery in Stoke-on-Trent I am confused by the Government's approach to the subject of pay in early years, particularly in the private sector. The DfES (News,...
If the Government wants to play Santa Claus to the UK's working parents, it could start with the incentives to expand employer-supported childcare that chancellor Gordon Brown alluded to in his...