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The case of Vanessa George, the Plymouth nursery worker accused of child abuse and making and distributing indecent images of young children, has shocked and horrified the early years sector (see...
Reading the whole of the Code of Practice for Free Early Years Provision is enough to give anybody a headache - particularly, of course, if you are a private or voluntary sector setting or in a local...
While the number of total childcare places has been rising in recent years, the sharp decline in the ranks of childminders has gone almost unnoticed (see News, page 4).
Early years settings are paying ever greater attention to the quality of provision for children under three, and practice has come a long way since the introduction of the Birth to Three Matters...
I want to thank Annette Dawson for voicing her opinion of Peter Moss's suggestion that childminders 'are nearly all lower-educated women'. I was dismayed and outraged by his statement. What exactly is...
A nursery in Gambia is changing its name in honour of a Preston nursery group that has raised thousands of pounds to support it.
The Early Intervention Foundation has named the 20 'pioneering places' it will work closely with to provide 'real-life', practical answers about how to deliver early intervention to the best effect.
A Critical Commentary on Reforming the Early Years Foundation Stage (the EYFS): Government Response to Consultation (publ. 20 Dec 2011)
Are more four-year-olds really starting Reception without being toilet trained, asks Alison Featherbe, and where does the fault lie?