Puzzles and puppets can be excellent teaching aids to help children explore their emotions, says Jenny Benjamin Over the past few years a new category of nursery equipment has appeared - products...
Ways to implement the Scottish Executive's revised integrated early years strategy in rural areas from this summer have come under the scrutiny of early years professionals. At a two-day national...
A new study will explore how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected health visiting services across the UK and how to improve them in the future.
Zoe is a three-year-old attending Cottingley Primary School nursery for a daily three-hour session. In the setting she shows a keen interest in water play and also spends much time imitating adults in...
Early years practitioners are caught between what policymakers and educationalists mean by readiness for school, as David Whitebread and Sue Bingham explain.
Affluent areas are growing nurseries while settings in areas of deprivation are increasingly struggling to survive, according to Christie and Co.
The children at one setting focused their interest in planets on Jupiter, which led to scientific enquiries and related artistic endeavours. By Annette Rawstrone
Thousands of working parents could find themselves out of pocket next year when the Government's much-heralded 50 a week tax and national insurance break on employer-supported childcare comes into...
By trying to protect children from harm, are we depriving them of learning? Tim Gill argues that early years staff can rethink their attitudes to taking risk Our nursery offers a safe and secure...
A unit that can help prepare new practitioners for dealing with parents and multi-agency working is examined by Mary Evans.