In January, Carmen Robinson enrolled for the new NVQ in Children's Care, Learning and Development. In the first of a series of columns she describes her experience as she progresses through the units....
Floor play areas are an essential and sometimes overlooked context for learning, says Elizabeth Jarman, in the second of a series looking at the kinds of spaces that nurseries need to provide for...
Students are reminded to send in entries by 5 June to the Nursery World Student Essay Competition, sponsored by Hays Early Years. This year's theme for an 800-word essay is 'Helping children to be...
The continuing refusal of the Government to contemplate registering nannies or allowing parents tax credits for employing them is leading to a boom in schemes that set nannies up as limited companies...
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...
As projects like Sure Start and Early Excellence expand, more and more early years practitioners are working together with other professionals like social workers, adult educators and health visitors....
26 January. 'Five Live Report - Terminal Care' (BBC Radio 5 Live, 12.05 to 12.30pm)
There's a distinct end-of-term feeling about this week, with some very important Government initiatives hurrying into the open before everybody heads off on holiday. The long-delayed Youth Green Paper...