Growing recognition of the expertise and community links of PVI providers places them in a strong position to deliver on the children's centre agenda, says Karen Faux.
Staff both new and experienced are finding fresh inspiration for practice on a nursery chain's in-house course. Karen Faux reports.
The basic set of skills and knowledge that childcare workers need has been updated and refined by the CWDC, says Karen Faux.
Children's experience of the outdoor environment can be enhanced through an imaginative use of ground surfaces and materials, reports Sue Learner.
Practitioners with Montessori knowledge can now do a top-up degree that will extend the skills they can offer. Karen Faux reports.
Timely advice on keeping tax credits has been issued by two leading childcare voucher suppliers, as they tell Karen Faux.
An innovative new setting is to offer parents a place to work and their children a place for care at the same time, says Karen Faux.
Given the recruitment crisis, free entitlement and apprenticeship funding challenges, there is a lot of excitement about the new early years sector council set up in June by teaching union NAHT. Karen...
Gayle Goshorn talks to nursery groups that have seen good times and bad times over two decades or more. How does today compare - and is there still a sense of fun in the nursery day?
Managing recruitment is always a delicate task, and never more so than in an unstable economic climate. Karen Faux considers how nursery groups are meeting the challenge.