In response to Jacqui Harbinson's letter 'Stocking up outdoors' (Letters, 3 March), our nursery class uses the outdoors daily and provides a great variety of activities. I have found these books very...
I was shocked to read the news that the cost of undertaking police checks for people planning to work with children in England and Wales is rising from 12 to 29 from the start of July ('Costs of...
This month, Julie Mountain is focusing on STEM because quick science, technology, engineering and maths projects are great when the weather is so unpredictable
Forging ahead into 2004, we've got a great issue of Nursery World for you this week, with both new and long-running features to help your practice and career development. Our 'project on a poster'...
Ann Arnold and her staff at the Queensway Chapel Pre-School in Melksham, Wiltshire, have been on a steep learning curve since April. They moved from running a long established pre-school to a new...
Childcare is now as important to the British economy as the transport system, the trade and industry secretary told delegates at the Daycare Trust annual conference in London last week. In a keynote...
A more detailed breakdown of the EYFS Profile statistics, published today, shows that the gap has widened between children with special educational needs and their peers.
Homeless children in Ireland will receieve 25 hours of free childcare a week, under new Government plans.
A first aid training body has warned that pre-school children in Scotland are being put at unneccessary risk because there is no requirement for childcare staff to hold a paediatric first aid...
Children growing up in poverty are living on a ‘cliff edge’ and the pandemic will sweep them ‘further into danger’, a new report which details the rising rates of child poverty in the UK, has...