by Quentin Blake (Jonathan Cape 2010)
What can you make? Staff in the Red Room at the Childcare Centre, Darlington College, make use of all available space to encourage children to work independently. This includes utilising the backs and...
New health screening for babies checks for four rare conditions - which can be treated through dietary management. Public Health England explains
By Sue Owen, director of NCB's early childhood unit I think we've become too snobbish about the word 'quality'. We feel that it no longer means anything because it has too many different meanings for...
Family and friends carers raising children are being left to fend for themselves and suffer significant levels of hardship, as local authorities fail to implement Government policy, according to a new...
The introduction of a pre-paid card similar to an Oyster for parents to pay for childcare, is just one of the recommendations outlined in a new report calling for radical reform of childcare funding.
A nursery that was set to offer seven-day, round-the-clock care has been refused registration by Ofsted.
The DfE is looking for early years 'experts', 'mentors' and 'area leads' for its leadership support and mentoring programme – one of a number of measures announced as part of the £153m Early Years...
Two-year-olds who attend childcare settings for between 20 and 30 hours a week do more learning activities at home than those who do not attend nursery, according to research by the National Centre...
Children aged five have a good understanding of physical illness but do not have the same grasp of what mental illness is until they are eight or nine years old, a new study has found. Researchers at...