Test your understanding of child development, or add to it, by following the progress of Jasmine over the coming months. Each column will note specific milestones and allow comparison of Jasmine, a...
Nanny agencies will be required to confirm to parents that prospective nannies are suitable for working with children, under new employment agency regulations announced last week. The move is part of...
This week's columnist Helen Penn wants our Government to avail itself of international ambitions for childcare and education Recently I co-organised a conference in London with Professor Peter Moss...
The chief executive and founder of Connect Childcare says that early years settings should only use paper for drawing and sticking.
We take a look at some of the biggest stories of 2013 and consider what lies ahead.
Poppy and Jack’s founder Sarah Bellamy, former head of digital for Guardian Media Group Radio, talks about the importance of digital – and why you need a strategy
Plan activities that will lead to the achievement of the early learning goals for physical development Three-year-olds are usually exclusively motor-active. They have been 'learning through doing'...
Nursery group Bright Horizons held a week of fundraising events dedicated to its charity the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children.
The Forest School ethos focuses on individual effort and achievement but its practice applies across the Foundation Stage and the curriculum Forest Schools are springing up across the UK. In Scotland,...
Birdboxes, bee hotels and fire woks are just some of the free resources on offer to early years settings and schools as part of Learning through Landscapes’s (LtL) Local School Nature Grants...