Hundreds of children's playgrounds have closed over the past three years, with hundreds more destined to follow suit.
* Sightlines Initiative 20 Great North Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE9 4PS, tel: 01912617666, e-mail: info@sightlines-initiative.com. * Lilly Lewarne Architects have experience in designing spaces...
How the A Better Start programme is improving services and outcomes for families by engaging and involving them. By Frances Lyons and Tom McCulloch
Professor Jan White considers how to get children and staff outdoors and back inside again with ease
Series guide Poor resourcing and planning are the greatest barriers to high-quality outdoor play. In this series, Jan White and Gail Ryder Richardson of Learning Through Landscapes' early years team...
The Open University has developed a free online physical development (PD) course, which is due to launch on 27 July and is now open for registration.
Enabling Successful Futures: Developing a reflective & impactful pedagogy in an increasingly challenging climate
Picking up on an interest in cake-making can give opportunities for promoting children's creative development, Jane Drake explains Observation in setting
Reading the eight-page pull-out ('All about Foundation Stage units', 3 October), it would seem that Maria Montessori's vision of a truly child-oriented environment is now closer to being realised on a...
Nurseries should be designed to meet the needs of the child, but this is often not the case, argues Jenny Benjamin For too long, says Eva Lloyd, chief executive of the National Early Years Network...