We look at the qualifications and training opportunities that are helping practitioners to reach their full career potential.
Nursery World survey reveals mixed views from early years settings about the Government’s plans for ‘school-based nurseries’ in empty primary school classrooms. By Catherine Gaunt and Katy Morton
What are the benefits of flexischooling for children, their families and educators? Nicole Weinstein speaks to some primary schools to find out
We take a look at some of the biggest stories of 2013 and consider what lies ahead.
With a recent study linking obesity to insufficient sleep, Meredith Jones Russell asks how practitioners and parents can ensure that children get enough rest day and night
Yolanda Brooks takes a look at some of the resources that will be on show at the Under 12s Exhibition Channelled learning
It doesn't require a large budget, just plenty of imagination and some careful forethought about how it's going to be used, to kit out your setting with a sensory room, as Annette Rawstrone explains.
The link between free early education for three-and four-year-olds and how well children do at school at the age of seven is not yet known, according to the National Audit Office.
With childcare ratios yet again in the spotlight, what do the Government’s plans to align England with Scotland really mean for early years settings? Catherine Gaunt reports
Early years organisations and campaigners have urged the new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to scrap plans to change staff-to-child ratios, and axe the deregulation agenda pursued by the previous PM Liz...