The National Childminding Association is holding a major seminar in London on 26 September to preview its new quality assurance scheme for individual childminders. Quality First will provide...
The Pre-school Learning Alliance has launched a two-year campaign to pressure the Government into rethinking its National Childcare Strategy.
There is a wide variation in the quality of care for the youngest children in Neighbourhood Nurseries, according to the latest DfES evaluation of the scheme. It found that 'on the whole' the...
Can you build or make a boat with a sail that is big enough for two children?
Staff, parents and children at Turncroft Nursery School in Darwen are celebrating a double hat-trick as the nursery has received its sixth consecutive Outstanding report from Ofsted.
The School Direct route gave one practitioner opportunities for practical learning and development - and ultimately a PGCE with EYT Status. Charlotte Goddard reports.
A study on the lasting impact of ‘childhood verbal abuse’ highlights the need for all adult caregivers to be mindful of how they communicate to children, finds Caroline Vollans
The head of the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) has admitted that nannies deemed unsuitable to work with children could still be able to get jobs with families after the CRB comes into force from 1...
A project on building takes various materials and calls for a lot of rewarding work, just like the real thing, as Helen Shelbourne shows. A project on buildings provides the basis for an exciting and...
Use your setting's resources to help children measure how they travel, in the second part of a project on journeys by Judith Stevens.