Winner - Natalie Jones, team leader for under-twos and special educational needs co-ordinator, Kiddi Caru Day Nursery, Colchester.
The recent death of a two-year-old boy from meningitis at a Lancashire nursery has highlighted, once again, the need for us all to know the symptoms of this devastating disease. But more than 40 per...
The good, the bad and the ugly: what picturebooks teach children about beauty and self-worth. By Andy McCormack
Debbie Chalmers' In My View ('Don't extend the school day', 24 June) looked promising, but as I read it I was increasingly shocked and dismayed. Surely the reason that children should not be...
With early years and schools in the midst of a crisis in funding, soaring costs and recruitment challenges, sector leaders have called for urgent financial support from the new education secretary Kit...
As a day nursery manager I am concerned about how local authorities in England are using postcodes to target nursery grants for eligible three-year-old children. Out of all the three-year-olds in our...
The apprenticeship levy will worsen the North-South divide in training opportunities and jobs, a leading think-tank has warned.
A headteacher in Havant, Hampshire, has been told she faces court action unless she repaints her nursery school - because it is too yellow, said the Daily Mail. Ethna Haines asked contractors to liven...
Early years settings around the country tell Karen Faux and Annette Rawstrone how they celebrate the holiday in both traditional and original ways.