To improve a setting for 90 children, nursery leader Pip Otter carried out an audit, using the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales (ECERS). This revealed strengths and weaknesses.
Understanding a child's background and family circumstances is key to providing effective provision, says James Hempsall.
From the valedictory lecture by Tim Gill, outgoing director of the Children's Play Council The 'home habitat' of a typical eight-year-old, the area that a child can travel around on their own, has...
Irish group Tigers Childcare has opened its first nursery in the UK, with €2m of investment.
As the 'rule of six' comes into force today, the Government has confirmed that childcare providers are exempt and will be able to take groups of children on outings.
The rapidly growing nursery group Family First has acquired a chain of settings in Essex and two standalone sites, taking its number of nurseries to 30.
Staffordshire-based regional chain Footsteps Day Nurseries has acquired Lollipops Day Nursery in Stafford, bringing the company’s nurseries to 10 settings in total.
The BBC could be sued for unfair dismissal of the 10-month-old baby who plays Oscar Branning in 'EastEnders', reported the Mirror.
A West Yorkshire nursery is celebrating winning 1,000 worth of imaginative play equipment in a reader offer from Nursery World and Galt Educational (10 April).
By Eva Lloyd, senior lecturer in early childhood studies in the School for Policy Studies at Bristol University The start of a new year provides an appropriate opportunity to focus on the position of...