The Forest School provides unrivalled opportunities to the young children at Bridgwater College's Early Excellence Centre, but any setting with access to the outdoors can provide high-quality...
Early years settings and schools are being encouraged to apply for a share of 300,000 earmarked to improve literacy by home reading. The money has been allocated as part of Home Together, the Scottish...
New Government figures reveal in each of the last three years, the proportion of nursery schools in deficit has been double that of all schools.
While it wasn’t possible for our panel of experts to come together in person for this year’s judging process, a series of Zoom debates ensured it was as lively and rigorous as ever. With the pandemic...
History, and the Child Study Movement in particular, can provide some important learning about observation and record keeping. Tina Bruce, Stella Louis and Georgie McCall offer some clarity on the...
The complicated issue of staff:child ratios is about to get even more difficult. Simon Vevers reports.
Nursery nurse members of the public services union Unison took part in a three-day programme of strike action across Scotland last week, demanding a review and regrading of their jobs. The action...
Early years employers are forbidden to discriminate against people in the workplace on the grounds of sexual orientation or religion under new laws that came into force in England, Scotland and Wales...
Fresh advice on how to reduce the risk of infectious diseases in pre-school settings is available in a free information pack published by the Infection Control Nurses Association and the Community...