Local authorities have been accused of dull, unimaginative playgrounds because of an over-reliance on an identical 'KFC' approach ('kit, fence and carpet') to play, which has grown out of the pressure...
Integrated services are being achieved by one county council by linking the extended schools funding with the children's centre programme. Simon Vevers hears about how it works Close ties between the...
A Sure Start local programme has developed a new parenting DVD in three languages. 'Baby and Me' gives simple tips in Arabic, Sylheti and English and aims to help parents develop warm, nurturing and...
The nursery nurses' strike in Scotland is causing clashes of opinion between those who would normally see themselves as partners in caring for young children. Staff taking industrial action are...
Plans for primary schools to finish lessons at lunchtime from September, attributed to the London borough of Newham in news reports last week, have been denied by the local education authority. A...
The new school term is now properly under way, and there's lots to help you make the most of it in this week's Nursery World. Our project outline (pages 18-19) is based on the Janet and Allen Ahlberg...
I cannot agree with Alan Bentley's column ('To the point' and News, 17 May) and find it very contradictory. He is asking us to speak with 'one voice', but surely setting up a separate association is...
Of all the initiatives pushed through by the Government in the past few years, the Transformation Fund seems to have caused the most confusion and suspicion. It is very difficult to engage with...
Congratulations to the nurseries and pre-schools of Kent for turning out in such force to the council's meeting about the Code of Practice on nursery education funding (see News, page 4). Some 400...
The Government's national childcare strategy has delivered more affordable places, says the latest report in a study of provision across the UK, but sustainability in disadvantaged areas will depend...