Early years providers have duties towards children with special educational needs and those with disabilities under two new codes. Radhika Holmstrom explains how settings can fulfill their obligations...
The new Child Care and Education qualifications offer modular options and more focused work, as Mary Evans finds.
Offering free early education to disadvantaged two-year-olds raises questions over availability and quality of provision, says Joyce Connor, Programme Director Early Years at National Children's...
Add ‘depth’ to summertime water play with STEM-focused buoyancy activities. By Julie Mountain and Felicity Robinson
Educational therapist Andrea Clifford Poston answers your queries about child behaviour Q I have sole charge of two girls, aged three and five. Their parents frequently work abroad. The girls are used...
One of the largest nursery providers in the UK is calling for a trade association to represent all private nursery businesses 'to fight our corner'. Chairman of the Childcare Corporation Alan Bentley...
Ofsted spends six times as much on regulating and inspecting a childcare place with a childminder as it does on one at an early years setting, an analysis by Nursery World reveals.
The owner of one of the nurseries exposed for bad practice in the BBC's 'Whistleblower' programme has spoken out about the allegations.
At the same time that a record number of families are using children's centres, many more are expected to close.
According to the Pre-school Learning Alliance survey, 38 per cent of providers think their business won't be sustainable in 12 months' time as a result of the 30 hours policy.