Milk supplier Scotts has been suspended from claiming for free nursery milk after a number of discrepancies in its claims.
Concerns about wide variations in the quality of candidates getting NVQs could increase with new funding methods, as Mary Evans reports National Vocational Qualifications were designed to equip the...
Tyres are perfect open-ended resources and link well to children's schemas, as Anne O'Connor observes.
Supporting parents: messages from research A major research programme involving 14 studies on parental support. The findings show the importance of joined-up integrated services that enable parents to...
Nursery staff have feared for their physical and mental health while working through successive lockdowns – many of them without access to full sick pay, a study led by the University of Leeds...
Puzzles and playtrays are invaluable in encouraging manual dexterity, helping children to identify shape and number, and in fostering language development Some children may enjoy playing with...
Parents in England are facing a ‘postcode lottery’ for 30-hour places as new data shows huge variations in the number of codes validated per local authority, says the Pre-school Learning Alliance.
The key to successful planning is for the early years team to be aware of children's developing needs and be able to respond to them flexibly Planning is about practitioners giving informed thought to...
In my experience of training and assessing assessors, the main benefit has been to see candidates achieving their goals. Usually this is reward enough. However, assessment also provides professional...