‘Swift’ action must be taken to ensure that disadvantaged children don’t miss out further in their education, the National Audit Office has told the Department for Education (17 March).
The NDNA's online quality assurance scheme aims to maximise the potential of every individual to energise practice and keep it moving forward, as Mary Evans hears at the start of a new series.
Paracetamol brand Calpol is enduringly popular with parents and carers, but is it used too much? By Meredith Jones Russell
Early years practitioners, like parents, are fiercely divided on the merits of 'reward' stickers for young children. Penny Tassoni sets out the arguments for and against.
Plenty of fresh thinking is on offer in a programme of seminars that will inspire practitioners in their approaches to working with children, as Dan Levy reports Potential of a Puddle!
How one setting used its own resources to explore the capital and bring it to life. By Annette Rawstrone
<P> Laws against physically punishing children have been used to educate parents rather than prosecute them. Jackie Cosh reports </P>
Amid falling numbers of Early Years Teacher students, the University of Worcester has dropped its course, although Greenwich university has doubled its intake this year.
Nurseries and pre-schools have been providing lunch parcels to children and delivering meals to foodbanks during half term, as public pressure mounts on the Government over its decision not to extend...
You can adapt your doll's house activities for children of differing abilities by letting them explore construction at their own pace, write Jean Evans and Dianne Irving Activity 1