Early years & childcare news & best practice

Learning & Development: Digital Technology - A tangled web

To prepare young children for life spent increasingly online, parents and early years practitioners need to monitor their web use and lead by example, writes John Bolton
EYFS Activities: We’ve explored… Humpty Dumpty

How a ‘crime scene’ based on the rhyme sparked lots of investigation. By Annette Rawstrone
Funding - A black hole?

The National Funding Formula for schools is changing from this month. What does this mean for early years, asks Hannah Crown
Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 3: Monitoring And Self-Evaluation

Pennie Akehurst, former head of the Early Years and Childcare Service at Derbyshire County Council, looks at how settings can replace the recently axed Ofsted self-evaluation form

Latest News & Analysis

Children spend 100 million minutes reading in a month

Children and young people across the UK have read for more than a 100,000,000 minutes as part of a month-long reading competition.

Nursery campaigners march on Westminster

A group of campaigners will visit Parliament today to highlight the fight to save five local authority nurseries in Salford.

New website resources to support children's communication

The Communication Trust has launched a new national initiative to help early years settings enhance their communication provision.

Business start-up grants available for new childminders

Newly-registered childminders in England could be eligible for funding from the Department for Education (DfE) to help them set up their business and offer 30-hour childcare.