Focus on the helpful people the children know best to understand their important roles, with activity ideas from Sheila Ebbutt and Carole Skinner Children will be familiar with various 'people who...
What approaches enable the inclusion and support of a child with high-level medical and physical needs in mainstream early years provision? Amanda King demonstrates with one successful case.
Changing teaching methods will not stop the debate about phonics, but practitioners can still apply their own judgement There can be few early years practitioners who remain unaware of the ongoing...
Registered childminders in Wales will be able to provide funded places for related children that do not live with them from September.
After 32 years at Voice the union as a senior professional officer, Ms Pritchard has left to work for BAPN, the association for professional nannies
A war of words was sparked between the two main teaching unions last week over Government plans to reduce teachers' workloads by extending the role of classroom assistants. The National Union of...
Nursery workers worried about abuse in their settings can call a new national whistleblowing helpline so that ‘nothing stands in the way’ of opportunities to protect children.
Both nature and nurture are at work when children re-enact key stages in the evolution of our species, says Philip Waters, in the latest article in his series on play types. I find it very alarming on...
Ofsted's new early years inspection framework, which comes into force on 4 November, will focus on safeguarding, safety and teaching.
The internet has led to a massive market in child abuse that the authorities are struggling to stem, while few child victims are able to be helped. Simon Vevers reports The internet has transformed...