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A new qualification is being introduced to help practitioners acquire the skills and knowledge they need to effectively implement the EYFS when it comes into force in September 2008.
Children have an early and natural urge to draw, but practitioners need to offer them ample resources and encourage them to think about and discuss their efforts afterwards.
Encouraged by Government, more employers want to help their staff with childcare, but what does this mean for providers? Simon Vevers investigates Childcare is increasingly becoming part of the...
Sure Start needs to be given time to draw in the most disadvantaged, say its defenders. Simon Vevers reports Press reaction to the National Evaluation of Sure Start was almost unremittingly negative,...
Life-long friends Rona Broderick, writing here, and Nicola Belgrave turned an East End London pub into the nursery they had dreamt of since they were 18 Nicola and I have known each other since we...
The fate of up to 1,000 funded places for three- and four-year-olds remains uncertain after pre-schools in Buckinghamshire said they still do not know if they will be able to charge for extra services...
MPs on the education and skills select committee last week added their voice to calls for the law in England to be changed, so that parents can read any complaints made about a prospective childcarer.
The ongoing protest from nurseries over the rules for nursery education grant funding means that some local authorities are delaying issuing guidelines on the revised Code of Practice. The London...
Sure Start children's centres would have the option of running as co-operatives under a Conservative Government, shadow minister for universities and skills David Willetts said on Monday.
Childcare practitioners are invited to give their views on the impact working in the early years has had on their stress levels and mental well-being.