One of an EYP's first priorities is to make children feel valued and secure. Developing a positive relationship with all children is therefore vital to the role, says the CWDC's Jane Haywood Standard...
You don't have to be an Early Years Professional to benefit from EYPS. This is the lesson being learnt in Cheshire, where the skills and insights of workers with the status are being shared with...
People working in early years have been urged to tell the Government their ideas about the future of the sector through the Big Conversation, launched last week by prime minister Tony Blair. Daycare...
The Government's early years policies have been called into question in a new think-tank report . In the report, Comparing Pre-school Standards, published last week, the group Politiea asked whether...
Evidence-based tools which actually work in the environment of a busy unpredictable early years setting are in short supply, but a new toolkit developed by the University of Cambridge, among others,...
The Scottish Executive's report on the progress of the Regulation of Care project has revealed positive feedback from respondents in the early years sector. The project, which finished its work on 1...
An opportunity to contribute to a research project on early years recruitment has been extended to allow more practitioners to share their experiences.
GIFTED AND TALENTED IN THE EARLY YEARS: Practical activities for children aged 3 to 5. By Margaret Sutherland. (Paul Chapman, ISBN 1 4129 03 68 8, 16.99, 020 73 248500) Reviewed by Miranda Walker,...
There has been a mixed response from the early years sector to Ofsted's proposals to increase the frequency of inspections for weaker settings and replace the grade of 'satisfactory' with 'requires...
Professor Nirmala Rao, judge of the Khalifa International Award for Early Learning, on why the prize brings overdue global prestige