Find the guidance you need in our November issue

Best practice features include:

• Dr Julian Grenier with the first part of a series on key features of effective practice in the revised Development Matters
• Liz Pemberton on how stories can help children build a secure sense of identity
• Children’s views of nursery life after lockdown
• A new series on essential resources, beginning with outdoor storage
• How picturebooks can support children with rules and routines
• All About… Early Childhood Education for Sustainability
• A language project in Liverpool nurseries
• New ways of engaging with parents in the wake of lockdown
• An update on peanut allergy
• Our regular activity section, with a project on skydiving, an action rhyme poster and the latest A to Z of learning

In our management section:

• Choosing the best CPD online courses
• Supporting your staff with safeguarding vulnerable children
• Managing bubbling and positive Covid tests

News, analysis and opinion includes:

• Councils ignoring DfE funding advice
• Karl Handscomb on the need to maintain benefits support
• Roberta Antonaci on why nature nurtures children

Nursery Management Autumn 2020

Our popular supplement, free with this issue, features:

• Narrowing the Covid disadvantage gap
• A qualifications round-up, with the latest on T-Levels and apprenticeships
• Analysis of diversity in the early years workforce
• The state of the childcare market
• An international perspective on managing settings in the pandemic
• Why training programmes are moving outdoors