How one award-winning setting welcomes children and staff with additional needs. By Gabriella Jozwiak
'Intimidating' groups of teenagers hanging out on streets are often ganging together to keep safe and avoid trouble, according to a recent study. The research with families in four disadvantaged areas...
By Suzi Beaman, owner of Holding the Reins Nursery in Plymouth, Devon We have run our nursery and cared for children aged two to five for 12 years. Following our recent transitional Ofsted inspection,...
The new Early Years Directorate has been dismayed to find that some local authorities in England have failed to make any progress on applications by childcare providers for registration received in...
Thinking of opening another nursery? Noella Pio Kivlehan suggests ways to deal with the obstacles along the way - from local residents' opposition to the minefield of council planning departments...
Many young children are spending their days being shuttled from one form of care and education to another. Anne Wiltsher looks at moves to smooth the joins
Building trust in the pre-school years can encourage traveller families into the formal education system, writes Judith Napier Staff expected a handful of under-fives to come along to their...
Designed to be used in everyday practice, the revised developmental grids give guidance on planning and 'how' children learn, says Helen Moylett, principal consultant, Early Learning Consultancy
A snack that will appeal to the most reluctant of eaters is this Crazy Car sandwich
A three-year-old boy sparked a full-scale police helicopter search after disappearing to take his toy dog for a walk in Fences House, Sunderland, said The Sun. Eric Murray's mother Nicola said, 'He...