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Fewer young children are growing up in extreme poverty in Sure Start Local Programme (SSLP)areas, a new report has found. The number of children under three living in families completely...

When Nursery World readers tell us what they would like more information on, top of the list for those early years practitioners working with the youngest children is 'planning for...

A nursery school in south east Wales is to close because the council's 'preferred' method of delivery of primary education is an establishment for three-to 11-year-olds where the Foundation Phase...

(Photograph) - Children at Paignton Zoo, Devon, frogmarched baby frogs from the zoo's tadpole tank to an onsite wildlife pond. The children, aged between two and five, are members of...

Childcare organisations are united against proposed staff to child ratios planned in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). While they welcome the guiding principle of the EYFS in response to...

(Photograph) - Children at Child First Day Nursery in Kingshurst, Birmingham, show off their limbo dancing skills at their Summer Fun Day, watched by nursery staff dressed as hula girls....

A Swedish woman of 104 received a letter, addressed to her 'guardian', inviting her to apply for nursery school in the Autumn. Authorities had assumed Lisa Heuren was born in...

Nursery World is conducting a salary survey for all staff working in early years settings. Help us to create the most accurate results by filling in the short Nursery World...

The University of East Anglia and the National Children's Bureau have been appointed to carry out the independent evaluation of national children's trusts. The final report is due to be...

Sure Start director Sheila Scales has written to local authority directors of children's services outlining future guidance for the performance management of children's centres and local authority early childhood services....