Do you display photographs of adults as well as of children in your setting, to show that both are welcomed and valued? What measures do you have in place to screen children's access to the internet?...
By Maureen Smith, ex-CACHE director and now a consultant 1 The need for continuous improvement Customer care needs to remain a top priority. Only by continuously improving your service will customers...
With foreign language learning being introduced in primary schools for Key Stage 2, practitioners have an opportunity to help children prepare. Opal Dunn considers the best approach.
Visiting fire or police stations helps children understand about 'people who help us' but there is a wealth of resources settings can use for role play to support this theme
The current crop of training programmes covers a broad range of topics related to health. Hannah Crown rounds up some of the options.
Agency staff are a vital resource for many settings, but using them can pose difficulties. By Jo Caswell and Kate Peach, owners of Peachwell early years consultancy.
Professor Cathy Nutbrown’s review of early years and childcare qualfications in 2012 found 445 available, of which 223 were deemed full and relevant.
Nursery staff need to know about healthy food, says Calvin Hanks, lead nutrition and safety consultant at Acorn Childcare Training.
Those having responsibility as a key carer need to be honest with themselves about the emotional and personal demands of the role as they tune in to individual children, says Anne O'Connor.
Evidence-based tools which actually work in the environment of a busy unpredictable early years setting are in short supply, but a new toolkit developed by the University of Cambridge, among others,...