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Play is just as active and essential to learning for babies and toddlers as it is for older children, as Julia Manning-Morton explains...

Daycare and childminding services in England have received a broadly positive appraisal in Ofsted's first-ever national analysis of the standard of provision.

The proportion of seven-year-olds achieving Government targets for writing has fallen by five percentage points over the past year.

Young children and their parents are the stars of a music and rhyme programme run by Michele Wills and Sue Rogers that's helping Sure Start to reach its aims...

Children’s salt consumption is rocketing to dangerous levels. Mary Whiting of the Food Commission offers some essential advice...

School may be out but the summer is a surprisingly busy time for Eva Lloyd , senior lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at Bristol University...

The effects of young children's uncontrolled emotions on those of the adults who care for them are explored by psychologists from the Anna Freud Centre...

A resource pack that provides materials to help early years practitioners encourage young children to participate in political, economic, social and cultural life has been produced by Learning and Teaching...

Incentives are shrinking for childcare providers to join a quality assurance scheme. Mary Evans looks at where the Government's plans may have gone awry...

Findings in Ofsted's report on the transition period after its takeover of responsibility for regulating childcare are outlined by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, David Bell...