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Name: Caroline WardPosition: Head teacher of Little Oaks Community Nursery
Forget tricycles and plastic climbing frames, start focusing on child development and outdoors – and reap the rewards, says Helen Bilton
Some interesting issues are raised by the guidance on developing children's centres which has just been published by the Sure Start unit (see News, page 4). Not least is the expectation that more than...
One setting has won plaudits for managing staff and tracking child development. Hannah Crown reports.
Researchers have found a link between the amount of time children spend in group daycare and poorer social and emotional development in Year 1, while also finding that disadvantaged children benefit...
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
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell says that lazy respect for religion and culture can blind us to children's suffering. There is something about faith that makes people lose their minds. In the...
* The National Day Nurseries Association has a new publication to help nurseries market their provision to the public and improve their sustainability. Topics include doing market research, making...