The New Lanark site of the world's first nursery and infant school has been awarded World Heritage Status. The industrial cotton-spinning village is only the fourth site in Scotland to receive the...
Ofsted's report into the performance of Early Excellence Centres (News, page 6, last week) has highlighted some problems with leadership and management, an issue that is examined further in this...
One of the bonuses of producing a weekly magazine is that we can keep readers right up to date with all the hottest news. This week's news pages are packed with the latest stories on pay and...
(Photograph) - Children can explore all the colours of the rainbow at a new gallery on the site of the world's first nursery school in Scotland. New Lanark, on the banks of the River Clyde, was...
* As the childminding network co-ordinator, Micky Waters is at the heart of the process of integrating children's and families' services at the St Albans children's centre in Hertfordshire. Under an...
A Yorkshire nursery owner and manager is in the running for a 20,000 prize in a competition to honour the UK's best new businesses, organised by the HSBC bank. Sally Minns, who set up the Old School...
Cuts in funding for childcare students have prompted one provider to focus on management training instead, suggesting that Government policy is having the opposite effect of its stated aim of raising...
Araft of new measures that will significantly extend access to tax breaks for employer-supported childcare across the UK has been proposed by the Treasury. At present, employees do not pay tax on the...
Almost one in 12 six-year-old children in the UK is obese and the problem is increasing, research published last week by the Health Development Agency has found. The HDA report, The management of...
12 November. Difficult, Demanding and Different Children: Behaviour management in The Early Years. This course will look at how to manage behaviour problems as a whole school and beyond, covering...