What is the ethnic makeup of the early years workforce, and what kinds of experiences do BAME practitioners have? Meredith Jones Russell searches for the data
Bureaucracy and misconceptions led to the decline of 'teaching' in the original EYFS. Early years expert Lena Engel explains why it must be restored to its rightful place under the revised framework.
There are three different levels of confidence, and practitioners have an important role to play in helping these to flourish in children, argue John Hattie and Gregory CR Yates in this edited...
Margaret (1860-1931) and Rachel (1859-1917) McMillan made real advances in early childcare, and their ideas still resonate today, says Linda Pound
Settings catering to disadvantaged threes and fours offer lower quality, according to new research from the University of Oxford and published by the Nuffield Foundation. Lead author Sandra Mathers...
Judith Stevens explains the changes to Mathematics in the revised EYFS framework
The early years sector has been left in no doubt that Ofsted believes that the best place for the poorest two-year-olds is in schools.
Raising pay levels in the sector is ultimately the only way to address the recruitment crisis finds Charlotte Goddard