The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) has published a report evaluating the impact of training health visitors in the use of the Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB), a tool to help with routine checks to promote...
Campaigners are warning that financial pressures on nurseries are limiting their ability to invest in early intervention and support for children. Sector body National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) said new...
Childminding could disappear within the next decade without urgent government intervention, a charity has warned.
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Extending government-funded childcare to two year olds has failed to narrow the attainment gap between the poorest children and their richer peers, research has found. The analysis by the Early Intervention Foundation...
A long-promised government consultation on the future of children’s centres has been shelved indefinitely, the Department for Education has confirmed. Nadhim Zahawi confirmed the decision in a letter to the House...
Sayra Akhtar explores the use of Technology in the classroom in her research entitled ‘An Exploration of the use of Technology in a key stage one classroom’ as part of her undergraduate Early Childhood...
More than four in five heads think test should no longer be statutory for all pupils in Year 1. Teachers have described the Year 1 phonics check as useless, depressing and crazy, and warn that five-year-olds who are not...
Trials of the controversial new test for reception-age children are to get under way in September, the organisation developing the checks has confirmed. The National Foundation for Educational Research (NfER) says that...
Government plans to introduce a baseline test for reception age children to measure their progress throughout primary school are “flawed, unjustified and wholly unfit for purpose”, a study by a group of...
A number of interventions commonly used to improve the wellbeing of expectant parents and newborns lack evidence of their effectiveness, a study has concluded. Jo Casebourne, chief executive of the Early Intervention...
Faiza Shafiq explores perceptions of risk taking in a Forest School in a SEN setting in her research entitled ‘A Case Study exploring Practitioners views of risk taking in a Special Educational Needs Forest School’ as...
The funding gap for nurseries to deliver the government free childcare initiatives has more than doubled over the past year, according to a survey of providers. The vast majority of providers said current government...
One in four early years practitioners are contemplating quitting the childcare sector due to stress and mental health pressures, a study has found. A survey conducted by the Pre-school Learning Alliance found that 57...
