Dyslexia is sometimes hard to diagnose and impossible to cure, but early years practitioners can do much to boost children's learning, as Maggie Jones explains
The head of the new early years branch of Ofsted tells Alison Mercer how she sees its role in being flexible towards providers and firmly consistent towards standards The early years sector responded...
Nannies whose new jobs started off awkwardly tell Helen Kewley how they learned to put things right September is traditionally a time when nannies start new jobs and this month many agencies will get...
The importance of a setting's environment to children's sense of security and freedom is a recurring theme, explains Wendy Scott Young children in daycare flourish where the adults working with them...
Including special needs children in mainstream settings can be a scary experience for the staff, says Mary Evans
At the same time as the Government announced the names of the organisations chosen to oversee the next round of CANparent classes, an evaluation of the scheme has revealed that just two per cent of...
Children who have fled conflict in another country may show characteristic reactions that sensitive early years settings can help them to overcome Every day we hear news about war or civil unrest....
Despite the ongoing difficulties facing the early years sector, including an increasing number of closures, the UK market has shown a great deal of resilience. Ben Barbanel, head of debt finance at...
In the last of our National Strategies features on the Early Years Foundation Stage, regional adviser Jane Mansfield and senior adviser Jan Lepley reflect on young children's development of empathy.
In an interview with Nursery World, Vicky Ford, the minister for children and families, has defended the level of funding for the early years sector during the coronavirus crisis.