* Jackie Nunns, chief executive of the out-of-school services Trojans scheme, has been shortlisted for the South London Press and Shell 'Our Heroes Community Champion' award 2005. She was nominated by...
So what effect is the Childcare Approval Scheme having on the nanny jobs market? What number of hours are nannies now working, what kind of holidays and benefits are they getting - and of course, how...
Government support for parenting starts too late in a child's life, and for the wrong reasons, argues Sue Gerhardt New Labour congratulate themselves on their capacity to respond to the fact that...
More than 100 nursery groups and early years providers have signed an open letter to the Government highlighting the dire situation the sector faces with recruitment at ‘an all-time low’ and settings...
Each child has their own temperament but they deserve support when they act out of character, says Jennie Lindon There is good reason to believe that babies are born with personal dispositions that...
I have read your excellent magazine for many years and the only area that angers me is the bickering of a core of nursery nurses about teachers (Letters, 5 January). I have taught and managed in early...
Practitioners find certain strategies prove especially effective for involving parents in their children's learning Our first major research project, which was funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Charitable...
Letter of the week wins 30 worth of children's books We are a group of nursery nurses, aged between 20 to 60, who have had enough of the misuse of the term 'nursery nurse'. We feel this misuse...
Gender and how to define it is rarely out of the headlines at the moment. Recent research is also prompting a rethink of what ‘gender’ means, by demolishing gender stereotypes and questioning the...
The children at one setting focused their interest in planets on Jupiter, which led to scientific enquiries and related artistic endeavours. By Annette Rawstrone