Early years workers are experiencing ‘high’ levels of cases of Covid-19, with around half of them worried about their safety working in nurseries, pre-schools and as childminders, according to new...
Close observation of children involved with small-world play can provide a wealth of opportunities to develop their oracy and language skills, writes Anne O'Connor
As a childminder in the remote Western Isles, 'wet play' takes on a special meaning for Donalda Campbell. Here she describes her average working week Monday Children today: Andrew (three) 8.45am to...
A revised strategy to reduce child poverty is to be set out by the Department for Work and Pensions in response to recommendations made by the Govern- ment's child poverty tsar, Lisa Harker. Speaking...
Personal development is difficult to quantify but early years practitioners can set examples and provide experiences for children to learn to respect others, writes Julian Grenier How you go about...
As a qualified nanny with more than ten years' experience, I was angered by the letter 'All childcarers need to be checked' (29 January). Although I agree with most of what was said about having...
More children may soon bemaking their way to school in a Walking Bus as part of new Government measures that aim to develop safer, healthier and more environmentally friendly ways to travel to school....
Plan a range of collaborative activities that explore what is good and bad about being happy and sad By the age of three or four years old, most children have acquired an awareness of themselves as a...
In the second part of our series on inclusion, <B>Collette Drifte</B> looks at cognition, and at how practitioners can set targets for children with learning difficulties