A new Level 5 award helps managers to keep their whole team developing, says Karen Faux
Squeeze and stretch Handling malleable materials is always a popular activity in early years settings. Try this mixture as an alternative to playdough, clay and gloop.
Continuing our series on preparing for Ofsted inspections, Laura Henry advises on how early years settings can demonstrate they protect children from harm and neglect The second of the five outcomes...
The Government's target for six per cent of the childcare workforce to be men by 2004 has been described as 'bizarre' by the chief executive of the National Childminding Association. Gill Haynes made...
Just over 27,000 people are employed in pre-school daycare centres in Scotland, caring for nearly 99,000 three-to five-year-olds, according to Scottish Executive statistics published last week. A...
The importance of reciprocal expressions between a baby and an adult carer, and finding opportunities that enable it, are explored by Anne O'Connor.
By Wanda Allen, High/Scope Regional Support Team Most early years practitioners would agree with the definition of teaching given on page 17 of the Early Years Foundation Stage document, which...