'What is remarkable is the extent of support for nursery nurses across whole communities, including parents. In not resolving this dispute, elected members in COSLA are becoming increasingly isolated...
'The more that agencies join up to provide the services to meet the various needs of families with young children, the more those needs can be met in a seamless way and we can ensure that children are...
'At face value, the improvement in SATs is an amazing rise in standards. When you see something like that you have to pause for a minute and say, is it real or not?' Professor Peter Tymms of Durham...
'I think you can pretty much say goodbye to cucumbers. They didn't go down well.' Alistair Farquhar, head of educational resource services at Moray Council, on the mixed reaction to introducing...
'Children learn the most in the first three years of their lives, so to catch them between two-and-a-half and three gets them in their best learning period.' Victoria Lynne, a former nursery school...
* A campaign to set up out-of-school provision for 11- to 16-year-olds, managed by the Kids' Clubs Network, has reported that it now has more than 300 clubs in development. Clubs belonging to the Make...
The draft Code of Practice for Special Educational Needs is being revised by the Government to ensure that children receive the help they need, schools minister Catherine Ashton said last week. The...
By Marian Whitehead, language and early years consultant The new Ofsted guidance on national standards for under-eights daycare and childminding in England must surely be the most bizarre set of...
'I am not going to play it safe. I hope to be bold enough to make mistakes and big enough to confess to them when I do' Kathleen Marshall, the first-ever commissioner for children and young people in...