Sunflowers were blooming all round when children from a Middlesex day nursery came to London Zoo last week to help launch the UK's first National Childcare Month. The children, from Knowle Green Day...
Child psychologist Jennie Lindon answers your letters about child behaviour Q. I am the childminder for three children and recently one mother let me know that she and her partner were separating. She...
Half of the early years workforce believe vaccination against Coronavirus should be a legal requirement for the job, a snap poll by Nursery World suggests.
The 2010 early years providers survey, carried out by the Department of Education, points to greater losses and more vacancies but many of this year's findings may be affected, in part, by changes to...
Practitioners and teachers play a key role in supporting five- to seven-year-olds to build on the bedrock of thinking skills acquired in the early years.
Dr Simon Brownhill from the University of Bristol talks about his research into men volunteering in the early years sector
Expansion of state-funded childcare settings is driving up rates of pay for nursery workers in the private, voluntary and independent sector, reports Mary Evans The average annual pay of childcare...
The future of early years qualifications still hangs in the balance as various reviews discuss the needs of the workforce in the light of the revised EYFS. Mary Evans takes stock of the developments
A new map tracking the waistlines of primary school children shows in some local authority areas close to 50 per cent of children are overweight or obese.