The trade union is calling for an ‘urgent’ cash boost to the childcare sector and an immediate increase in the minimum wage.
We've all been amazed at the breadth of learning gained from setting up a hospital corner in the nursery. It all started when one of our children was admitted to hospital for a short operation. When...
By Jane Drake, a partnership advisory teacher in Leeds and author of Planning Children's Play and Learning in the Foundation Stage and Organising Play in the Early Years (David Fulton) Effective...
Sand and water are vital tools through which you can teach maths, art and science, and they provide younger children with new experiences of texture and cause and effect - they are also the source of...
The best way to share good practice is to go and see how other nurseries work, as June O'Sullivan found when she invited early years practitioners from Scotland to London Early years practitioners...
Karen Faux talked to Rebecca O’Brien, artistic director of early years puppet theatre company Knuckle & Joint about its new adaption of Little Bo Beep, all set to take the stage at this year’s...
With bank lending falling since the financial crisis and cuts to local authority budgets taking hold, early years providers are beginning to turn to crowdfunding as a way of raising cash. Katy...
The deepening of children’s thinking and learning at one setting in west London is examined by Jo Dabir-Alai in part one of this three-part series
Private and voluntary providers in Kent received letters from the local authority on Friday confirming that they are not able to charge top-up fees to parents for the free nursery education grant...
From next month, children aged four to 11 will take part in Government funded physical activity lessons as part of the 'Energy Club' scheme