19 June 2008
Activities such as circle time bring a 'culture of therapy' into the classroom and are damaging children's minds, a leading educationalist has said. Dennis Hayes, visiting professor at the Westminster...
19 June 2008
Economists have pointed to a growing gap between rich and poor in the UK as Government figures revealed that the number of children living in poverty rose by 100,000 to...
19 June 2008
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19 June 2008
I work in a private day nursery which offers wraparound care to children who attend the adjoining primary school. The school children have been separated from the pre-school childen, as...
19 June 2008
Play England has been named by the Government as the support body for its Play Strategy.
4 June 2008
An award-winning nursery school has been saved from closure after consultation with the local community.
4 June 2008
The Ten-Year Childcare Strategy has failed to make any real impact on the number of parents using registered childcare, research carried out for the DCSF has found.
4 June 2008
The Early Years Foundation Stage violates parents' human rights by denying them the freedom to choose how their children are educated, a coalition of England's independent schools has said in...
4 June 2008
More details of the next steps towards the Early Years Framework in Scotland have been outlined by children's minister Adam Ingram.