By trying to protect children from harm, are we depriving them of learning? Tim Gill argues that early years staff can rethink their attitudes to taking risk Our nursery offers a safe and secure...
How to use the profile to record the whole child is explained by Brenda Spencer, Tina Bruce and Marion Dowling of the Early Years Advisory Group to the DfES.
How the early learning goals for Communication, Language and Literacy should be revised. By Professors Chris Pascal and Tony Bertram, and Kathryn Peckham
By Opal Dunn, children's author and language consultant.
A Nottingham nursery has been closed down and two members of its staff arrested following the discovery of unexplained fractures suffered by three children.
The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) programme pilots will be extended to 12,000 families by 2015, health secretary Andrew Lansley said last week.
A programme to train mentors is to help raise standards and develop more reflective, confident practitioners, says Karen Faux.
The number of childcare providers rated outstanding in the last year is more than double that of the previous year, according to Ofsted's annual report published on Tuesday.
Early years organisations across Northern Ireland are 'watching with envy' the amount of money the Government is investing in England's Sure Start services and children's centres.
Unpublished Government research appears to contradict the findings of an internal report carried out by the Department for Children, Schools and Families last month, which found a direct link between...