Amid extra funding for school-based nurseries, and a new school-readiness drive, is the balance shifting away from PVIs?

Easy-to-make and cheap-to-buy resources will help children across the age groups explore and experience the wind, explains ...

New research from Ofsted aims to help early years leaders and staff 'refine' their approach to supporting babies and toddlers ...

Creating an attractive and richly resourced environment that is calm, safe and nurturing for the babies. The first few months and years of a baby's life are a critical window for brain development, ...

In the first in a new series on staple resources, Nicole Weinstein looks at the many uses for balls in childcare settings ...

Creative play has a soothing action on the nervous system, says Jacqueline Harding in an edited extract of The Brain that ...

Children whose irritability does not reduce between ages three and seven are at higher risk of depression and self-harm as ...

In the first in a new series on staple resources, Nicole Weinstein looks at the many uses for balls in childcare settings ...

Creative play has a soothing action on the nervous system, says Jacqueline Harding in an edited extract of The Brain that ...

A trip to the local skatepark – suggested by one of the children attending First Friends Nursery in Alton, Hampshire – led to ...

Imogen Edmunds, managing director of Redwing Solutions, which specialises in HR for early years settings, on leading at times ...

This month we caught up with Sarah Camp who recently completed her Early Years Lead Practitioner Level 5 a. She was ...