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Give staff regular feedback of the right kind * Positive feedback involves praise and a celebration of people's strengths and achievement. It is the easiest feedback to give, but in...

Early years settings should recruit staff from a broader range of people not only to reflect diversity, but because the workforce traditionally employed is shrinking. At present, the average childcare...

Modern Apprenticeship The Government has just relaunched the Modern Apprenticeship scheme, which it hopes will offer a combination of on-and off-the-job education and training to people aged 16 to 24...

Un Deux Trois - First French Rhymes selected by Opal Dunn (Frances Lincoln, book, £5.99; cassette, £3.99; book and cassette, £8.99, tel: 020 7284 4009) is a collection of French...

Saying rhymes with opportunities for interaction and dramatisation is an ideal way for young children to practise another language. Opal Dunn shows how. Young children's innate ability to pick up...

Try some of the following action rhymes with the children: Mes deux mains se dissent bonjour (My two hands say hello) Shake your own hands. Elles se regardent (They look...

By Rob Kelsall, GMB union negotiator in Birmingham On 15 January 2003, education secretary Charles Clarke, along with the majority of unions representing teachers and school support staff, signed a...

Prime minister Tony Blair recently said that there would be free education for two-year-olds, then corrected himself and referred to 'early years care'. So even people at the top appear...

Coram Family, the latest incarnation of Thomas Coram's 18th-century children's charity ('Taking refuge', 3 June), continues his innovative ways of caring for children, for which my family have particular cause...