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Counting, and use of numbers as labels, constitutes one strand of mathematical development in the early learning goals. To foster this development, early years practitioners need to be aware how...

The child-centred, informal atmosphere that should exist throughout the day in an early years setting should also continue at mealtimes. Although dinner time (especially) necessarily involves adult timetables and other...

With the national childcare strategy changing all the time, no two days are the same for Eve Stickler . She describes a hectic week in her job as lead officer...

A report, Who will care?, launched at the Labour Party conference in Brighton this week, puts childcare among the lowest-paid jobs in Britain, with childcarers earning less than gardeners and...

Playgroups in some parts of Leicestershire may have to close and more than 500 children could lose their free places because the county council has underestimated the demand for provision.

One of the bonuses of producing a weekly magazine is that we can keep readers right up to date with all the hottest news. This week's news pages are packed...

Government plans to expand the early years sector will be undermined by the low pay and low status of childcare professionals, the Daycare Trust has predicted. A report, Who will...

Organisations representing early years staff have called on the Government to recognise that childcare professionals are 'key workers' in the same way that it has recognised teachers, nurses and police...

(Photograph) - Children at the Buffer Bear Day Nursery in the grounds of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel donned white coats to paint a mural on one of the...

Pre-school children in America have been encouraged to re-enact last month's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington through playing with older children so that they can come up with...