1. Create a stimulating environment that will arouse children's curiosity. 2. Support children's learning by providing the resources that they need to take their investigations further.
A leading MP has called for the Government to better evaluate the impact of its policies after our investigation found that the 30 hours offer is penalising disadvantaged children.
(Photograph) - Damon Britton, otherwise known as Dom in the TV series 'Byker Grove', plants a flower with four-year-old Oliver Thompson at the Riverside Centre Nursery in North Shields, Tyneside,...
The revised EYFS is everywhere - except on the DfE website home page!
An early years sector wary of any more new initiatives from policymakers agrees that widening access to childcare would be a worthwhile one, as Simon Vevers hears.
Ofsted's latest report on the early years and childcare sector paints a broadly positive picture of day-to-day operations in the sector (see News, page 6), brimming as it is with examples of good...
How did the early years property sector perform in 2013, and what does 2014 look like? Karen Faux talks to the experts to find out.
How can leaders ensure that staff are supporting the setting’s outdoors provision to the best of their ability, asks Professor Jan White
The Chesterfield Hotel in London provided the venue for our expert panel of judges to meet and debate who deserved to win in each award category. With a large number of entries, and the standard...