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Colour coded displays of child progress at the touch of a button A new report built into the EYFS Pupil Tracker (www.eyfstracker.com) provides a clear, colour-coded display of a child’s progress. The EYFS Pupil Tracker is used by childcare providers...

National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) is calling on the government to make sure there is the right level of support in place to help early years providers deliver Ofsted’s drive for quality improvement. The charity is also calling for improvements...

Mixed feelings about Ofsted’s decision The Pre-school Learning Alliance has welcomed Ofsted’s decision to drive up the quality of childcare providers in England by targeting weaker day nurseries and pre-schools with more frequent...

The Pre-school Learning Alliance has called for Ofsted to clarify “potentially very worrying” statistics that show that 8 per cent of daycare settings in England inspected under its new framework between September and December 2012 have been...

The autumn and winter months bring plenty of wind, rain, ice and snow but should this be a time to avoid outside learning opportunities or grasp them with both hands? I often hear 'it's too wet to go outside' or 'it's too cold' but this tends to be the view...