How to get children to eat fish? No problem, says Mary Whiting - go for tinned. It's tasty, quick, easy, highly nutritious and a huge bargain.
A new initiative helps childcare providers choose the quality assurance scheme that can best benefit their practice, says the Sure Start Unit. This week has seen the launch of Investors in Children, a...
Three-quarters of nurseries are facing a hike of between 5- to- 12 per cent to their staffing costs due to the rise in wages and pensions from 1 April.
As nursery owners in England gear up to reopen from 1 June, an online conference run by Famly, with Nursery World as media partner, has pulled together expert advice on key questions.
Children’s mental health services are ‘buckling under pressure’ in the wake of the pandemic, says Anne Longfield’s Commission on Young Lives, which calls on the two Conservative leadership candidates...
A new report looking at ways to reform childcare recommends staff: child ratios be relaxed further than the proposed 1:5 in 'good' and 'outstanding' nurseries and suggests childminder agencies take on...
Practitioners with the right knowledge and resources can make maths meaningful for children and promote it throughout a setting’s provision, discovers Nicole Weinstein
In 'On Course' on 15 April we published the incorrect date and contact details for 'Babies as Researchers and Inventors'. The date should have been 31 July and the contact details Lincolnshire...
MPs have urged school reform minister Nick Gibb to give parents of summer-born children a right of appeal if their requests for a later school start are turned down.
Settings catering to disadvantaged threes and fours offer lower quality, according to new research from the University of Oxford and published by the Nuffield Foundation. Lead author Sandra Mathers...