The revised Early Years Foundation Stage and its Characteristics of Effective Learning provide an opportunity to change practice in Key Stage 1 - and the new Ofsted inspection framework allows...
The patterns in language, movement and music may not be immediately obvious but learning to recognise them helps children make sense of the world, says Linda Pound.
Eight in ten parents rely on grandparents for childcare and want them to move closer, according to a survey of 1,550 parents and parents-to-be by property website findaproperty.com.
A new initiative helps childcare providers choose the quality assurance scheme that can best benefit their practice, says the Sure Start Unit. This week has seen the launch of Investors in Children, a...
Why do some children ‘flip their lid’? Mine Conkbayir explains in this edited extract of her book The Neuroscience of the Developing Child.
Early years practitioners should be alert to the potential in all of their setting's creative provision for developing children's problem-solving, reasoning and numeracy (PSRN). Linda Pound shows...
Nearly 90 per cent of mothers whose babies suffered cot death smoked during pregnancy, a study at the University of Bristol found.
The 2011 census found there were 3.5 million children under five in England and Wales, which is 406,000 more than the last census in 2001.
The new rules for the nursery education grant have been called into question, after it emerged that the DfES may have failed to follow Government procedure. Cabinet Office guidelines state that a...