Schools need to do more to attract the poorest children to take up two-year-old places and to work with early years providers in their area, Sir Michael Wilshaw has said.
'Y Kids' at Penicuik YMCA near Edinburgh decided to focus on sport during its half-term week. Here, senior playleader Helen Cullen re-lives six hectic days when it wasn't only the children who got...
<P>Investigations into high-profile cases have highlighted shortcomings in the way children brought into the UK are recorded and protected, reports <B>Beatrix Campbell</B> </P>
There are many ways that you can market your club's services to the local community and, says Jackie Nunns, it won't break the bank to do so Whether you have vacancies or a waiting list, marketing...
Concessions on staff qualification levels in nurseries mean little as long as training lags so far behind. Ruth Thomson reports
The destination is the guiding light in a new way to progress through qualifications suited to individual learners. Mary Evans reports.
Early years workers have an important role to play in the lives of refugee children from traumatised families. Wendy Wallace reports
There's no end of variations on one of the most basic playthings, in new versions tried out by early years settings for Nicole Weinstein.
Nannying has been the mainstay for a family of professional childcarers well supplied with work by Helen Kewley When a really capable nanny comes to my agency and takes a job and employers think she...
Close interaction between children's centres and childminders enhances both kinds of provider - and parent choice too, says Annette Rawstrone.