Childminders are restricting the number of three- and four-year-old funded places they offer, or withdrawing from offering the provision entirely, finds a new survey.

Children progress in ways that cannot always be captured by a score, say Ruth Swailes and Aaron Bradbury, who make the case for a new approach to the levels of development they are expected to reach ...

Understanding how children's environments affect their development is more important than ever with AI on the horizon ...

Richard Willis, visiting professor at the University of South Wales, reviews a book that demonstrates how children use drawing to communicate ...

Millions of pounds in unspent grant funding earmarked for the government’s landmark early years expansion for working families is yet to be allocated by local authorities to early years settings, ...

Looking back at our coverage of women's and mothers’ rights over the past 100 years is illuminating, while revealing how far ...

In the first of a new series on early life e, Professor Sam Wass, Dr. Gemma Goldenberg and Martin Ellory examine current ...

The announced investment in Best Start Centres only adds to the argument for a full reinstatement of the better-funded Sure ...

For the first time in eight years, the Government has signalled it wants more men to join the early years workforce, with ads ...

Imogen Edmunds, managing director of Redwing Solutions, which specialises in HR for early years settings, on why flexible ...

Extras’ such as meals and activities are covered by Tax-Free Childcare but not by Universal Credit, leading to fears that a ...