Practitioners will need much more than props to bring stories to life and capture and hold children's attention Props are an important part of storytime, adding to children's enjoyment of the story,...
Families with special needs children can access information about local services, including nurseries and childminders, in a new trip-advisor style website.
I must write after reading 'An insider's dim view' (Letters, 8 February). I have worked in childcare for more than 40 years and always endeavoured to provide the best possible care. I have owned my...
Entrepreneur and Coffee Republic chain co-founder Saher Hashemi spent a day working at her local nursery last week as part of a month-long Government campaign that aims to show that early years and...
The Self-Evaluation Form (SEF) that providers are asked to complete prior to their Ofsted inspection has been scrapped for maintained schools and nurseries.
Val Buckett, the head teacher of Pembury House Centre for Childhood in Tottenham, London, is not proud. 'Early Excellence is not about people coming in to admire us,' she says. 'It is an attempt to...
Creativity is about process; often the end product does not matter at all. What a child produces isn't as important as the thinking that went on as it was created. Creativity is inspired by...
By Annette Dawson, a registered childminder in Basingstoke, Hampshire Working Families Tax Credit is supposed to be a benefit for parents who work to be able to access affordable childcare. It is...
Two nursery schools in west London have been saved in what has been hailed as 'a landmark case' of value for money over cost per child.