Early years providers are facing a real-term cut in funding to deliver three and four-year-old places in 2015/16, amid increases to business and running costs.
Part 4: Trainee EYT Emma Davis gives wrapping paper a maths focus and has to contend with an observation on her first day back
Alysha Birtles from Tiddlywinks Nursery Group in Ancoats has achieved her Elklan Level 4 qualification and obtained the setting’s Communication Friendly status.
Children from Pippins Pre-school in West Malling have been making smoothies and juices.
Southwark Primary School in Nottingham City has kicked off the new term with training for the EYFS and Year 1 staff about Ferre Laevers scales of involvement and well-being. Believing that levels of...
Unlimited fun is at your fingertips with endless variations on a homemade plaything suggested by Meg Jones What shall we do today? As Homer Simpson might reply, 'Doh!' For many generations one of the...
Plans to increase child tax credits by 4 a week for parents of oneand two-year-olds from 2012 were revealed in last week's Budget.
A two-year pilot that made free school meals available for all primary pupils significantly improved children's attainment, with children making between four and eight weeks more progress than is...
Thinking of opening another nursery? Noella Pio Kivlehan suggests ways to deal with the obstacles along the way - from local residents' opposition to the minefield of council planning departments...
In our news story 'Scrapping of tax credits proposed' (24 April), we quoted directly from the Policy Exchange report a phrase including 'parents who prefer informal care (grandparents, childminders)'.