New research, due at the end of the month, will examine the success of a programme aimed at giving early years practitioners a better understanding of how babies and toddlers’ language and literacy...
Pre-school education has a positive long-term benefit on how well children do at school but does not help close the gap between children from poorer backgrounds and their peers, new research suggests.
With so many toys and resources available for children under three, Mary Evans suggests what to look out for when buying equipment.
Two thousand more two-year-olds will be eligible for a free early education place from September in plans to be announced by the Deputy Prime Minister today.
Nearly half a million children with disabilities and special needs are missing out on a childcare places, according to a report published last week by the childcare charity Daycare Trust. The report,...
By Mary Dickens, early years consultant (All Together Consultancy and London Metropolitan University)
Mary Dickins is an early years consultant (All Together Consultancy/London Met. University)
Anational working group of nanny agencies and nanny representatives is set to lobby the Government to introduce a register of nannies.
WINNER: Barnabees Nursery School, Kidderminster, Worcestershire