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Jackie Basquill is an early years lecturer at Edge Hill University whose role includes assessment during the validation process for EYPS. Here she describes how a student on the full-time pathway...
The children at your club are the people best qualified to chose new staff playworkers. But how should you involve them in recruitment? Philip Waters has first-hand experience. Sophie turned to the...
Construction block sets are among the essential equipment that any nursery will have, but that doesn't mean they're all alike. Mary Evans hears how early years settings rate a variety of the latest...
An analysis of the impact that Government proposals from the 'More Great Childcare' report will have on the childminding sector is being carried out by the Institute of Public Policy Research.
Nannies as well as au pairs should consider a warning issued by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation about looking for jobs on the booming number of unregulated internet websites. Elizabeth...
The issue of nursery nurses' pay is filling our news pages once again this week. In Glasgow, Unison members are taking to the streets later this month in support of a national pay claim for Scotland...
Why children need to chatter is explored by Di Chilvers, senior lecturer in Early Childhood Studies When was the last time that you had an extended, informal and relaxed conversation with the young...
With the twos programme set to expand its offering this September, Dr Julian Grenier looks at some of the problems with the scheme and suggests how the Government might tackle them.
What can you make? Staff in the Red Room at the Childcare Centre, Darlington College, make use of all available space to encourage children to work independently. This includes utilising the backs and...
'A schema is a pattern of repeated actions. Clusters of schemas develop into later concepts.' (Chris Athey, 2003) These articles have been written by the Pen Green Team as a result of monthly seminars...