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Increased Government support for the expansion of childcare programmes must be matched by action to boost pay levels of staff in the sector, a senior union official warned last week as thousands of...
Children are being steered towards pleasing teachers over developing a genuine love of learning under proposed reforms to the Early Learning Goals, early years experts said yesterday.
The current grade of 'satisfactory' for early years settings will stay for the moment, Ofsted has confirmed, following feedback from nurseries and childminders.
Levels of severe obesity in children aged 10 to 11 years have reached the highest point since records began.
Campaigners fighting to register and regulate the nanny sector have expressed ‘further frustration’ at the Government’s latest response to their concerns that parents will be driven to use unregulated...
Up to 1.5 million children are at risk of speech and language delay, which is why their support needs to be at the heart of this week’s Spending Review, says Carol Payne, interim chief executive of I...
Free childcare for pre-school children should be significantly extended and the number of children's centres should be doubled, according to Capacity, a new public interest body for children's...
Free childcare for pre-school children should be significantly extended and the number of children's centres should be doubled, according to Capacity, a new public interest body for children's...
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What is appropriate mathematics education for four-year-olds? Pre-kindergarten teachers' beliefs In this American study, 30 pre-kindergarten teachers of four-year-olds, half working in publicly-funded...