Teachers have voted in favour of campaigning against the Government's plans to introduce a new baseline assessment for four-year-olds.
The Liberal Democrats would raise the pupil premium for nursery-age children to £1,000 a year, under plans released as part of the party’s election manifesto.
The Childcare Bill, which will entitle parents to 30 hours of free childcare a week, has had its first reading in the House of Lords.
More than two million children are living in households that have cut back on food or heating because of a real-term freeze to child benefits.
An initiative in Liverpool looking at ICT has taken practitioners into new territory, says project developer Ann Langston of Early Years Matters.
Budget cuts have seen the closure of many children’s centres, and reduced services at those that remain. But they are trying to forge a viable future, as Charlotte Goddard explains
Desperately wanting to create a fresh project, drama club leader Alex Marker cast around his neighbourhood for a setting that would have a different impact... I was in a rut. Summer and holiday...
All services in a fast-changing country are becoming aware of how they must co-operate and embrace new ideas for the sake of young children, says Helen Penn The South African Department of Education...