Nursery staff have feared for their physical and mental health while working through successive lockdowns – many of them without access to full sick pay, a study led by the University of Leeds...
Early years experts have welcomed revised guidance on the future of nursery schools, but warn that enforceable action is needed to prevent more closures. The revised advice from the DfES to local...
Voluntary providers will be supplying childcare services for 22,000 children at 16 new children's centres opening across Devon over the next year. Devon County Council said that Barnardo's, NCH, the...
The public service union Unison, which is campaigning for improved pay and conditions for nursery nurses, may consider taking them out of the single status agreement and negotiating their salaries...
A cohesive conceptual framework for education in the broadest sense of the word has a lot to offer the UK. Janet Boddy and Claire Cameron explain The recent DfES Children's Workforce strategy document...
Training to become an Early Years Teacher doesn't have to take an entire year. Charlotte Goddard meets an experienced nursery practitioner who took a shorter route to the qualification.
Pupils at Acre Hall Primary School in Flixton, Greater Manchester have been celebrating 70 years of the NHS by producing artworks to donate to the Children’s and Adolescent Ward at Trafford General...
The developmental importance of play needs to be recognised beyond the EYFS and into children’s subsequent years at school
Busy Bees, one of the most rapidly-growing nursery groups, has established a firm presence in the north-west with the acquisition of Tibbitots Day Nurseries in Lancashire. The chain has been pursuing...