The NFER carrying out research into the early years workforce in England to identify key challenges into recruitment and ...

The Government is to review and consult on early years funding and introduce a new professional register to raise the value of the workforce.

Researchers from the University of Northampton and Nottingham Trent University have launched the ‘Play 2025’ survey to ...

The education secretary Bridget Phillipson has today (7 July) revealed more details of the Government’s new Best Start in ...

Thousands of children will start school this September with the new school readiness ‘toolkit’ in place. Nicole Weinstein ...

Our Government won't tackle child poverty without paying attention to the problems around the Child Maintenance Service, says ...

The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has announced new measures to help the Government’s achieve its school readiness target and called for ‘renewed recognition’ of the work done by early ...

With the full roll-out of the expanded entitlement of 30 hours for all children of working parents from the age of nine ...

What does being ‘school ready’ actually mean, and how can parents help their children to be prepared for this next step and ...

Annette Rawstrone discusses the importance of children developing movement skills in order to support further learning ...

While the most vulnerable families miss out on the expanded entitlement, the Government will fail to close the opportunity ...

'I can trace so many life lessons and inspirations back to my time at nursery.' ...