As early years practitioners return to their work with renewed vigour and enthusiasm after the break, Nursery World has some great new features for 2001. Our new eight-page pull-out series starts this...
MPs have called for nursery schools to be given more protection to ensure their long-term survival.
Part of a parent or carer's role is to make sure that activities are at the appropriate level for an individual child. Each baby or toddler will developat their own rate, so be careful that they are...
Families still face many hurdles to accessing universal, high-quality childcare, despite progress by policymakers. Sharon Charity of Daycare Trust looks at what the Government could be doing to clear...
It didn't get the predictable 'nanny from hell' headlines in all the newspapers, but in December a nanny was sent to jail for 15 months for assaulting two toddlers in her care. Kingston Crown Court in...
According to research, cookery is one of the activities children like best, and you don't have to have a state of the art kitchen, says Fiona Hamilton-Fairley I still have a vivid memory of our first...
New children's minister Dawn Primarolo sets out her priorities for childcare and delivering the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Daycare Trust and Unison have joined forces to provide grants to support parents and staff campaigning to save their local Sure Start children's centres from closure.
A nursery group has succeeded in having its Ofsted grade successfully re-instated to a ‘good’ grade after campaigning for seven months to have a ‘satisfactory’ inspection judgement overturned.
Wentworth Nursery School in Hackney has been named Early Years Setting of the Year at the third annual Shine a Light awards ceremony in London.