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Some food for thought in your professional career Mentoring in the Early Years Edited by Alison Robins (Paul Chapman Publishing, £16.99, 020 7324 8703) Reviewed by Kay Jaques, manager of...

Getting Started in Home-based Childcare By Sue Griffin (Heinemann, £12.99, available from Nursery World Bookshop, tel. 0870 444 8633, www.nurseryworld.co.uk) Reviewed by Sandy Weller, chair of Wandsworth Childminders' Association As...

Check that your early years setting has the right care, learning and play policies with pointers from Laura Henry About this series

Chages in the makeup of the early years workforce mean those in supervisory positions must learn new skills, as Mary Evans finds Increasingly, nursery managers delegate responsibility for the day-to-day...

Ways to discourage young children from engaging in certain personal habits and develop alternative behaviour are explained by Jenny Mosley and Ross Grogan Q How can we stop a three-year-old...

New hopes are held out for children who suffer from this life-threatening condition. Melanie Defries explains what they need Cystic fibrosis came to prominent public attention recently when it was...

By Jane Davidson, Welsh education minister The Foundation Phase will provide young children with a curriculum which is more appropriate to their stage of development. It offers an approach that...

Does EYP stand for Excluding Your Professionals? While I agree with improving daycare practice, I am not at all confident that EYP status will achieve this.

Beverley Hughes (Analysis, 23 November) seems to have deliberately avoided the main issue of the NurseryEducation Grant being insufficient to cover the costs of providing free entitlement. I doubt if...

I can't help but feel Judith Baxter (Letters, 16 November) hasn't quite grasped the implications of what the new code of practice will do for some of us. As she...