6 December 2007
Ofsted is asking providers if they'd like it to give parents shopping for childcare more information about them, reports Karen Faux.
26 July 2007
With the EYFS adding to pressures for better trained staff, financial stresses are pushing early years settings from the other direction. Mary Evans hears why.
26 July 2007
Demonstrating the idea of one more and less is the basis of adding and subtracting, say Sheila Ebbutt and Carole Skinner.
26 July 2007
Higher hourly wages in exchange for some benefit sacrifice are catching on in some nurseries. Mary Evans looks at the effects.
13 December 2007
The impressive efforts at enjoyable healthy eating being made by early years settings around the country are being revealed and rewarded in the Nursery Food Awards. Melanie Defries finds out...
13 December 2007
Give children plenty of opportunities to measure and compare quantities, and develop the vocabulary to describe what they are doing, with more activity ideas in our series by Sheila Ebbutt...
13 December 2007
Young children may tell untruths because they want them to be true, and adults can help by modelling desirable behaviour, says Annette Rawstrone.
13 December 2007
Monitoring outsiders who come to the nursery, and ensuring that children's medicines are given safely, are in the procedures outlined this month by Laura Henry and Jeanette Phillips-Green.
13 December 2007
A new nursery is already alert to changing local demands and expanding its provision accordingly, as Karen Faux hears.
13 December 2007
The experiences young children have with their carers can shape the development of their brains and influence the sort of people they become, says Maria Robinson.