Nursery owners in Birmingham are launching a campaign against council plans to make private, voluntary and independent (PVI) providers pay the living wage to retain early education funding.
Everyone in a nursery has some adjusting to do when someone leaves, writes <B>Jennie Lindon </B>
Our panel of early years setting leaders explain how they observe job candidates’ skills at interacting and engaging with children. By Gabriella Jozwiak
Settings often struggle with planning for under-threes, to the detriment of provision. Jennie Lindon explains some key aspects of developmentally appropriate planning for young children Effective...
Headteacher Alison Peacock argues that the teaching profession should respond courageously to the draft curriculum by enhancing it with a richly diverse and irresistible school curriculum that builds...
To prepare for the roll-out of funded two-year-old places to 20 per cent of two-year-olds from September 2013, the Department for Education (DfE) funded ten trial areas from September 2012 to March...
The high cost of childcare means that thousands of mothers are effectively paying to return to work after having children, according to the IPPR, which is calling for universal pre-school to start at...
The figures behind the Government's claim to be a big spender in early childhood services don't appear to add up, say Peter Moss and Eva Lloyd.
More than 100 nursery campaigners, including many children and parents, gathered outside Hampshire Council Chambers in Winchester last week to protest about Government rules for Nursery Education...
Kiddi Caru’s HR manager tells Gabriella Jozwiak about her varied role at the nursery chain, from keeping up with legislation to training staff