'I know that I share with the First Minister the determination to close the gap and to give every child the same opportunities to realise their full potential. That means a focus on the pre-school...
'Since no other care provider may smoke over babies or smack children - no matter what their parents say - this decision singles out registered childminders as somehow less professional than nursery...
'Overlong hours lead to exhaustion. And they are causing children to grow up deprived of parental attention... A common reaction to us "whingers" is that flexible working is too expensive to...
'Early childhood education is neither rocket science nor the panacea for all our social ills, though listening to the high priestesses of what has become a millennium cult you might think it is both'...
Parents can play an important part in helping children learn to dress, but how might settings support them in this? Penny Tassoni offers some suggestions to help smooth the process.
I have a BA in Early Childhood Education and have quit my position in a family centre because management was unwilling to use my experience and qualifications to their full advantage. It had already...
* Out-of-school clubs in England have doubled in four years. * In 1997 there were 3,500 clubs; today there are 7,000 clubs, offering 240,000 places.
Donating toys and making cards for child refugees of the war in Ukraine was a hugely positive experience for all the children involved at one setting. By Gabriella Jozwiak
I live in South Africa and would love to work as a nanny in the UK. But South Africa does not offer a NNEB or similar qualification, and there are relatively few opportunities to be a nanny here. I...
Some arguments about men working in childcare need to be challenged, says Julian Grenier How would you like to work in a job where you are so mistrusted that every time you carried out one of your...