The Childcare Act (2006) has provided the first legislative underpinning for the rights of young children. The right to an integrated, quality, play-based framework for development and learning from...
I note the plethora of letters, and the column by Alan Bentley ('To the point', 19 July), all bemoaning the failings of the Nursery Education Grant.
The Red House Children's Book Award is the only major award voted entirely for by children. This year 25,000 children across the UK took part in the judging through book groups organised by the...
* Jennifer Brice, 42, was a full-time mother of five until she embarked on a DCE course at Barnet College, north London, almost two years ago. She hopes it will provide a route back into employment,...
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An alarming drop in childminding has prompted two studies into the people who do the job, as Ann Mooney reports In the past five years the number of childminders in England has dropped by 30 per cent...
The EYFS is being judged before it is implemented, says Jeanne Barczewska, early years lecturer and consultant The recent extremely reactionary articles in the national press about the Early Years...
Like it or not, nurseries are going to have to find ways to work with the changes to staffing ratios and their links to qualification levels. Mary Evans hears what some managers think about it.
Simplified funding, less bureaucracy and more scope to expand will ‘free up nurseries who want to grow’.
As the deadline for paying 15 and 30 hours funding in monthly instalments approaches, Nursery World has looked at whether local authorities have already made the move and if it has been beneficial to...