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Chancellor Sajid Javid has announced an increase of £66m in early years funding in his first spending review.
Proposals to raise the admission age for nursery schools and classes in Northern Ireland to ensure that two-year-olds remain in a more age-appropriate environment have been welcomed by the early years...
Everyday real-life activities such as making shopping lists are the most valuable way to encourage confident literacy skills, says Anne O'Connor.
Early years practitioners are caught between what policymakers and educationalists mean by readiness for school, as David Whitebread and Sue Bingham explain.
'Learning to read or to write one's name at three is not necessarily an indication of future academic potential. Einstein didn't learn to read until he was seven' Sue Mardel, primary inspector for...
Choices in Childcare, which was mentioned in the feature 'Juggling act' (15 March), has asked us to point out that it has changed its name to the National Association of Children's Information...
(Photograph) - Three-year-old Dickon Fox shows off his scary creation at an Easter scarecrow-making session at Skidby Mill near Cottingham, East Yorkshire. The event was part of a week of springtime...
A comprehensive review of Scotland's child protection systems was announced last week by education minister Jack McConnell. He highlighted the case of three-year-old Dumfries girl Kennedy MacFarlane,...
Childcare organisations are united against proposed staff to child ratios planned in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). While they welcome the guiding principle of the EYFS in response to the...
Action research is a form of 'self-reflective enquiry' that can help settings work through points of concern to find workable solutions. Julie McLarnon shows how it works in practice.