With foreign language learning being introduced in primary schools for Key Stage 2, practitioners have an opportunity to help children prepare. Opal Dunn considers the best approach.
References, which are provided? at the discretion of the employer, can be a minefield. Jacqui Mann explores the particular risks associated with verbal references, citing a recent tribunal case
A Christian nursery worker sacked for comments about homosexuality recently won a case against her employer. So are equality and discrimination mutually exclusive? Katy Morton finds out.
Charlotte Bateman is managing director of Little Barn Owls Farm School and Nursery in West Sussex, where she works with, and supports, colleague Charlotte Mendola – a nursery educator who is studying...
Only making the tea, not being British, and it doesn’t apply to me, are all reasons that employers have given for not paying the statutory minimum wage, the Government has revealed.
This year's exhibition gives early years practitioners a unique opportunity to take some time out for themselves. Dan Levy investigates You can find the Enlighten Zone opposite massage therapies
Government encouragement of employer-subsidised childcare has been given a warm welcome in the sector, but does it go far enough? <B> Simon Vevers </B> reports
The latest laws on procedures following a claim by an employee that their employer is guilty of malpractice are outlined by Robert Collier.