A guide to the new NVQs in Children's Care, Learning and Development Maureen Little, chief external verifier at CACHE, takes a look at the wide range of people who are involved in the assessment...
By Catherine Gaunt The national occupational standards that underpin training in early years care and education across the UK are due to be agreed in November. The details were revealed by Lynette...
I qualified 22 years ago and have worked at least part-time for 20 of those years. I have always welcomed further training opportunities, particularly when working in school settings, and have...
Primary schools are the fastest route for the Government to develop universal early years provision, according to the head of a leading children and family research institute. Gillian Pugh, chief...
Ideas to help you implement Birth to Three Matters This week: Again! Again! - Asking for more: looking, pointing, using sounds and words
A nursery rated outstanding is fighting a loophole in its local free entitlement funding which left it 288 out of pocket.
Mother of three Sarah Waterfield fought for four years to find help for her distressed, anxious and tense little daughter Megan. But after turning to Sensorium it took just a fortnight for Megan to...
A membership organisation is to be set up for forest schools following a consultation carried out by the Institute for Outdoor Learning (IOL) Special Interest Group for Forest Schools and supported by...
More than half of all nurseries are choosing to freeze staff pay rather than put up fees to cope with the recession, a new survey by the National Day Nurseries Association suggests.
By Lisa Steele-Bevan, a nursery nurse working part-time in a playgroup in Bampton, Oxfordshire I am working for a playgroup where I am paid more per hour than I was while I was deputy manager at a...