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Having looked at 'treasure-basket play', Penny Tassoni looks at how this type of play can be developed with toddlers into something known as 'heuristic play'.
The number of children in Scotland's primary, secondary and special schools has fallen by 8,300 since September 2003. The biggest decrease was in the primary sector, where enrolment dropped by 7,700...
A big drop in the number of learners qualifying with a Level 3 between 2014 and 2016 has put a ‘significant strain on early years settings’, according to awarding bodies and training providers.
The Government is gearing up to try and relax ratios again, argues Christie and Co's Courteney Donaldson, managing director of childcare and education
The voluntary sector has improved more than any other type of provision, according to the first large-scale study of childcare across England since the Effective Provision of Pre-School Education...
'Evolution not revolution' has become something of a cliche, but certainly not a meaningless one where early years practice is concerned. As Julian Grenier, head of Kate Greenaway Nursery School and...
In her column for Nursery World this week, Beverley Hughes, Minister for Children, Young People and Families, reveals exclusively that the initial consultation on the extension to the free entitlement...
The UK appears doomed to be a nation waddling towards a fat future, according to the Foresight report on obesity (see News, page 4).
Extending the free nursery entitlement is the Government's latest effort for disadvantaged children, writes Beverley Hughes.
We're approaching the festive season and the end of 2008, but there's been no let-up in Government activity across the UK in order to do the Christmas shopping and bake the mince pies!