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Many fine words are uttered about the need to raise the status of the early years workforce and the professionalism of the sector. Around 600,000 people are now working in early years in an...
What price universal childcare? As publication of the Government's ten-year plan looms, various lobbying organisations have been coming up with some firm figures for the funding needed to make the...
Hot on the heels of Bright Horizons Family Solutions' acquisition of Kinderquest, Busy Bees has snapped up the Lancashire-based Kindercare Childcare Centres group (see News, page 4), taking it to...
Baroness Blackstone, Minister of State for the Arts, launched 'Quality Training, Quality Play', the new National Strategy for Playwork Education, Training and Qualifications 2002-2005 last month (for...
Schools across the country are up in arms about shortfalls in their budget allocations which, they say, mean that it will be impossible for them to implement the Workload Reduction Agreement, with...
We have ten copies of 'Keeping the Beat - Nursery Rhymes for Today's Children' (Keeping the Beat, 10) to give away to Nursery World readers. The CD features traditional rhymes like 'Humpty Dumpty'...
Nursery World readers could win a free copy of 'Baa Baa and the Three Bears and Other Stories', the latest video of the educational MacDonald's Farm TV programme. The video, suitable for children aged...
Quality of care for under-twos is significantly improved when the adult:child ratio is reduced from 1:5 to 1:3, according to an experimental study into the effects of ratios on interaction....
With money from the Transformation Fund equating to 500 per worker in the early years sector, it is not going to achieve miracles (see News, page 4). However, there are some interesting suggestions in...