Failure to get the funding right for the 30-hour childcare policy could lead to cuts to places for disadvantaged two-year-olds, the Government’s independent spending watchdog claims today.
Richard Willis, visiting professor at the University of South Wales, reviews a book which integrates early years theory and practice, and aims to encourage readers to start a conversation about their...
Penny Tassoni has tips for sharing Lucy Cousins' Peck, Peck, Peck (Walker Books, 2013)
Two decades of ‘relentless’ policy changes, lack of investment and low pay have led to early years teachers feeling devalued and ready to leave their profession.
What childcare training involves under the Steiner Waldorf approach. By Jill Tina Taplin
The Government will not back down on top-up fees, even if it means providers will opt out of the free entitlement scheme, children's minister Sarah Teather has exclusively revealed this week.
Animals, real and mythical, featured in the children's latest visit to the woods, says Caroline Watts, forest school leader, Reflections Nursery & Forest School, Worthing, West Sussex