A consultation on plans to increase next year’s National Living Wage rate to £9.21 opened today.
Disabled children at a school in Lanark, Scotland, are enjoying a new sensory room with the help of the Bright Horizons nursery chain and Kwik-Fit Insurance.
Use this month to really push your setting in the run-up to September, writes Nicola Read
Today's early years managers need to acquire new skills. Mary Evans lists courses available to enhance your qualifications Across the early years sector, staff with childcare qualifications and...
Maria Neal is the early years co-ordinator at Barlborough Hall School in Derbyshire, which is linked with Makumbi Primary School in Zimbabwe. Maria recently visited the school and saw first-hand how...
The award-winning Pen Green Children’s Centre in Corby has regained its ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted grade after disputing a judgement of inadequate by inspectors at the end of last year.
On entering Reception, children are exposed to the world of 'formal' language. In the third part of our series on communication, Dr Anna Theakston explains what it is and how to support it.
Pre-school children at Little Acorns Nursery in Urmston, Trafford have been enjoying their garden by making mud pies.
Visits out of the setting are a valuable way of broadening children's experiences and helping them to develop an understanding of the world around them. Such visits needn't be 'day trips' over long...
There's more to painting than the finished work a child presents to a parent. <B>Kristin Ali Eglinton</B> looks closer at what the experience offers