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Researchers have found a link between the amount of time children spend in group daycare and poorer social and emotional development in Year 1, while also finding that disadvantaged children benefit...
* Nursery group Child Base is set to name its new chairman in the next few weeks, after Sir Peter Thompson, the company's co-founder, stepped down from the position in October. He remains life...
The Department for Education (DfE) is toughening its stance on local authority approaches to funding childminders for free early education places.
Westminster schools are set to receive £2.1m funding to help children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
Angry parents and private nursery owners have won a reprieve on the funding of places for three-year-olds outside local authority provision after Dundee City Council backtracked on plans to stop...
One in five children aged under eight now have access to a registered childcare place, according to Ofsted - but increased provision has also led to falling occupancy levels in day nurseries and fears...
Ofsted's first national analysis of childcare provision since taking over its inspection and regulation in September 2001 seems to show cause for optimism about quality, with improvements being made...
Question time Each morning we set up a question on our question table and display board for the children to answer, with their parent or carer, by placing their name card in a 'yes' or 'no' container.
This week, more research has been released showing that downward pressure from a results-driven National Curriculum is leading to inappropriate practice in the Foundation Stage, particularly in...
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...