Childhood and Education

I've been maintaining this site for almost 8 years, but this is my final post as I am moving onto a new role within the Library at Unive...

The Family and Childcare Trust has just launched a really simple, effective tool. The Childcare and Family Services Finder is a free servi...

Today sees the official launch of a new early years organisation. National Early Years Trainers & Consultants (NEYTCO) is a membership o...

It looks like Christmas has come early as far the publisher Routledge is concerned. From now until the end of the year, they are offering fr...

It's nearly Christmas, so it must be time for a review of major developments and new research published in the children's sector dur...

I haven't posted an archive film clip for a while, but today's is a real curio. Below is a 1944 short film in which some children ar...

On Friday the latest report from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) was published. The MCS is a huge, ongoing project which has been tracking...

Today the National Literacy Trust has published its second annual survey of parents and practitioners from early years settings. The report ...

Ofsted has just published its latest statistics on inspections for registered early years and childcare providers. It's a little tricky ...

One of the most common enquiries I've had over the last year or so deals with the issue of children and screen time - what impact does s...