We must make sure that parents recognise the huge impact they can have on their children’s outcomes and attainment...

Although not having a garden might add additional challenges around getting outdoors, we can all become experts at thinking outside the box and create opportunities for the children we care for to explore their immediate environments.

Sometimes, it can be harder to distinguish the benefits of play to children's mental wellbeing and emotional intelligence, than on social and physical development — but they are there and we should be aware of them.   

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning, but for children play is serious learning....

Play is not just a right that we can bestow on children, it is a basic need integral to their learning and development and vital to their wellbeing...

The coronavirus pandemic and all that it brought with it in the form of national lockdowns, social distancing and mask wearing, has caused upheaval in the lives of children across the world. So what are the effects it has had and how long will the impact last?

Gill Jones, deputy director for schools and early education policy at Ofsted, answers some key questions ahead of the return to inspections

The ICO is contacting educational settings that have not yet registered

Over recent days, there has been a lot of confusion around whether or not early years providers are now eligible for Covid-19 vaccination under the umbrella of ‘social care’. The below FAQ aims to clear up some of the confusion on the official current government position on the issue of vaccinations. When are early years providers […]

Many settings have received phone calls from an “enforcement officer" at HMRC

Latest updates on our work on mass testing, vaccinations, funding, baby and toddler groups and more

We answer some of your key questions about the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and early years funding.