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The deadline for the Pre-School Learning Alliance Play Awards 2007 has been extended to 14 May. For an entry form call 01628 500303 or visit www.pre-school.org.uk.

Readers who want to attend the 23 June Playing to Learn conference, featured in Nursery World (26.4.07), have been asked by Manchester Metropolitan University to call 0161 247 4689 or...

A childcare recruitment agency has been forced to disclose a confidential reference about a nursery nurse on its books after losing a nine-month battle to withhold the information. The nursery...

Playworkers in Northern Ireland are behind the increasing attendance at pre-school by traveller children, research has found. An independent report, Early Years Development Through Play for Traveller Children, assesses The...

Early years professionals are not receiving enough information or training on how to support children who have speech and language difficulties, new research shows. A survey of nearly 200 early...

(Photograph) - Grace Woodcock, four, leads the way in the maypole dancing at East Prescot Road Nursery School's 60th birthday celebrations. The Liverpool nursery school held a day of festivity...

Outdoor play for children in the Foundation Stage can be severely limited by staff members' lack of confidence about their skills and their nursery's outdoor environment, according to a study...

An estimated half a million visits to families by health visitors are not happening due to savage cuts in debt-ridden Primary Care Trusts, the Amicus/Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association...

The Childcare Act (2006) has provided the first legislative underpinning for the rights of young children. The right to an integrated, quality, play-based framework for development and learning from birth...

Are children's picture books being killed off by plug-in media - and what implications would this have for their learning? Annette Rawstone hears from the experts Can you imagine a...