Childcare practitioners in Plymouth are benefiting from an innovative scheme set up and funded by the city council's early years team to share best practice. The Open Door programme is providing the impetus for local nurseries to visit each other and exchange good practice. The scheme provides a more formal basis for early years advisors to promote this. Vicki Cross, proprietor of Pathways Day Nursery, transformed her setting after making two visits this summer. Sue Fitzsimmons, manager of the Toad Hall Pre-School, says...