Outdoor play is the clear favourite of UK children - with 80 per cent them preferring to play outdoors rather than indoors, according to a survey to mark Playday 2006. The Children's Play Council...
The former president of Early Education has been awarded the CBE for services to early years education in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Jean Ensing, president of Early Education from October 1997 to...
Is the Government over-stocking the pool of childcare places and making it harder for private providers to survive? Simon Vevers reports
The University of Cambridge and the Early Intervention Foundation are asking for input from practitioners to create a new resource library for early years professionals.
Trust children's natural fascination with animals to draw them to a project on pets with this first instalment of activities across the curriclum from Judith Stevens Pets provide the basis for a...
A nursery is at the heart of a community development within a socially mixed area in the centre of London. Karen Faux reports. Since its launch last October, the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre has...
Are we getting any closer to understanding childhood obesity? And what should early years practitioners be doing to help prevent it? Professor Pinki Sahota offers expert advice.
Local authorities across Britain are snapping up a pioneering Scottish-designed computer package which aims to take the pain out of managing an out-of-school club. Christine McGrory and Jacque-line...
Parents of an August-born child have won a two-and-a-half year fight to defer her school entry until after her fifth birthday.