Easing children's transition from the Foundation Stage to Year One is the focus of a projected being funded by the Innovation Unit at the Department for Education and Skills. Gail Bedford, headteacher...
Following the publication of the NDNA survey, we take an in-depth look at the findings.
Recruitment and training of the children's workforce is a major element of the Government's ten-year childcare strategy just released. And the recent EPPE study findings highlighted the importance of...
It's time to listen to childcarers and simplify tax credit subsidies.
Having to conform to goals and targets can damage children's sense of self and community, and inhibit their motivation, argues Wendy Ellyatt.
Letting children invent their own rules ensures creative and unusual board games, says Miranda Walker Over the winter months children play plenty of table top games. No wonder they're often fed up...
Letting children practise negotiating steps and slopes will improve their physical confidence and can teach them about number and gravity. By Julie Mountain
* Finalists have been lined up for the National Childminding Association's Childminder of the Year awards to be announced today (1 February). On the shortlist in the category of 'registered...
What will be the most important factor determining how many adults are in charge of how many children in a nursery, if early years settings are released from stringent rules, asks Annette Rawstrone.