In the first of a new series on strategies for coping with the current severe shortage of staff, Charlotte Goddard sets out the key barriers facing the childcare sector
Karen Hart unpicks Standard 1 of the Early Years Teacher criteria, and offers an insight into how trainees might demonstrate the standard and embed it into their practice.
We have ten copies of Colours We Eat - Red Foods (Read and Learn, Raintree, 5.25) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'Red...
Fennies, which operates across London, Surrey and Kent, has opened two new settings in the last couple of weeks.
While the rise in the number of adults being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes hit the headlines again recently, what is less reported is the sharp rise in recent years of the number of under-fives...
(Photograph) - Primary 1 pupils at Oakbank Primary School in Perth transformed an area of wasteland at the school into an award-winning garden in just four months. Their work on a rockery, senses...
Supporting Families in the Foundation Years sets out proposals for parents to access their free entitlement at the earlier time of 7am, or later at 7pm. James Hempsall outlines how one nursery is...
1 (1) Asquith Court Schools 5,770 2 (2) Leapfrog Day Nurseries 3,659
Ofsted figures published today shows that places have risen slightly, but provider numbers have fallen, and fewer low-income families have access to two-year-old places.
Many children in need are pre-school age, but early help is being cut. Rachel Buckler, trainer and consultant, reports