Leadership: Communicating with families

• Early Years | Management | Leadership

Effective communication with families is essential for every...

Inspections clinic: Early years inspection updates

• Early Years | Early years education | Ofsted

Early years providers have seen significant regulatory and...

Legal Update: Impact of EYFS reforms

• Legal | Early Years | Childminding | Early years education

Emma Goddard, membership and communications officer at Coram...

Children's Workforce Guide to Qualifications and Training 2023/24

• Careers | Courses and training | Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Management | Ofsted | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work

With many parts of the sector facing recruitment challenges,...

The young and old learning together

• Early Years | Nurseries | Early years education | Play

Chester-based Nursery in Belong is one of a handful of UK...

Inspections Clinic: Early education and childcare

• Ofsted | Early Years | Early years education

Ofsted's latest annual report sets out the major challenges...

Inspections Clinic: Early education – key questions

• Early Years | Early years education | Ofsted

Ofsted has published the first in a series of research...

Strep A: Guidance for early years providers amid rise in infections

• Early Years

Early years leaders have issued guidance for professionals,...

Government policy briefs for children and young people

• Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work | Education | Early Years | Health | Guide To...

CYP Now lays out the responsibilities of ministers...

Mobile provision: Children’s services on the road

• Children's Services | Youth Work | Early Years

Mobile provision allows children’s services teams to reach...

Interview: Helen Hayes MP, shadow children and early years minister

• Interview | Early Years

Fiona Simpson grills the shadow children and early years...

Top tips for supporting men working in early years

• Early Years

As one in five parents questions the suitability of men...

Inspections Clinic: Mock childcare inspections

• Early Years | Ofsted

Ofsted’s chief may have branded them a ‘waste of money’ but...

Children & Young People Now Awards 2021 Shortlist

• Children's Services | Youth Work | Education | Early Years | Social Care | Youth Justice

The CYP Now Awards highlight the very best practice in work...

Key resources to support play in children

• Early Years | Play

Recognising the importance of children’s play is “more...

Scheme trains parents to boost literacy skills of disadvantaged children

• Early Years | Early years education | Families/Parenting | Early help

National Literacy Trust supports parents and under-fives to...

Interview: Tulip Siddiq MP, shadow children and early years minister

• Early Years | Interview

Derren Hayes speaks to Labour's children and early years...

Inspections Clinic: Early years providers

• Ofsted | Early Years

The pandemic has seen a big drop in childcare provision with...

Should ‘free’ childcare be for the most disadvantaged only?

• Early Years | Families/Parenting

An NAO report suggests funded childcare may damage social...

Council redesigns care pathway to boost SLC support

• Early Years | Early years education | Families/Parenting | Early help

Nottingham City Council aims to boost social mobility by...

Social Mobility in the Early Years: Special Report

• Early Years | Families/Parenting

Interventions to boost young children’s outcomes and narrow...

From Crisis in the Early Years to a Fairer Start: Could We Close the School Readiness Gap By 2030?

• Early Years | Education

CYP Now joined forces with Nesta to discuss with leaders in...

CYP Now Awards: Winners revealed

• Early Years | Education | Children's Services | Social Care | Youth Work | Youth Justice

Winners of the Children & Young People Now Awards 2020 were...

Coronavirus: Latest guidance for early years, schools, social workers, youth and youth justice services

• Coronavirus | Youth Work | Youth Justice | Social Care | Education | Early Years

The government has published its latest "roadmap" out of...

Early years inspections during Covid

• Early Years | Early years education | Ofsted

Ofsted analysis highlights the ways childcare providers have...

CYP Now Awards 2020 unveils shortlist

• Children's Services | Youth Work | Early Years

The finalists for the Children & Young People Now Awards...

Special Report: Research: Outdoor Learning - Research evidence: Study 1

• Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning

The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom is a charity...

Special Report: Research: Outdoor Learning - Research evidence: Study 2

• Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning

The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom is a charity...

Special Report: Research: Outdoor Learning - Research evidence: Study 3

• Early Years | Outdoor Learning

The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom is a charity...

Special Report: Practice: Outdoor Learning - Practice examples: Nursery transforms outdoor space to spark imagination

• Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning

A £150,000 investment at a Staffordshire nursery has created...

Special Report: Policy - Outdoor Learning

• Early Years | Early years education | Outdoor Learning

Research showing outdoor learning makes children happier and...

Special Report: Research: Outdoor Learning - Research evidence: Study 5

• Early Years | Outdoor Learning

The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom is a charity...

Special Report: Research: Outdoor Learning - Research evidence: Study 4

• Early Years | Outdoor Learning

The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom is a charity...

Special Report: Practice: Outdoor Learning - Practice examples: The Valley Project helps children build a better future

• Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning

The Valley Project based on the Holme Wood Estate in...

Special Report: Practice: Outdoor Learning - Practice examples: Samara Trust schools embrace outdoor learning ethos

• Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning

A multi-academy trust in Cheshire is helping pupils to...

CYP Now launches #Chances4Children campaign

• Youth Work | Social Care | Youth Justice | Children's Services | Early Years | Education | Coronavirus | Chances4Children | Guide To...

CYP Now is today launching its #Chances4Children campaign to...

Giving children a better start in life

• Early Years | Early years education | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Child poverty | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Play | Outdoor Learning

The National Lottery-funded A Better Start programme to...

Five inspection trends

• Ofsted | Early Years | Education | Social Care

Ofsted’s latest annual report highlights changes in...

Learning Through Play, USA

• Education | Early Years | Play | Early years education | Social Care | Attachment & Neglect | Play

Experiencing abuse or neglect can hinder the development of...

Why we changed careers to work with children

• Careers | Early Years | Children's Services | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Health | Health visiting | Management | Leadership

Many children’s and youth services are experiencing staffing...

'Free' early education entitlement

• Early Years | Asylum | Legal

Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram,...

Early years - Children's Workforce Qualifications and Training Guide

• Courses and training | Early Years

The early years sector faces ongoing challenges recruiting...

Speech and language: The 30 million word gap

• Early Years | Education | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

According to one influential piece of research,...

First 1,001 Days: Special Report

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect

Amid deep cuts to early years support, policymakers and...

Inspections Clinic: Ofsted early years forum

• Early Years | Inspections

A new group of early education academics and childcare...

Charity's guiding light: Julie Bentley, chief executive of Action for Children

• Early Years | Children's Services

Derren Hayes meets Julie Bentley, chief executive of Action...

Early years food: Nourishing growing minds and bodies

• Early Years | Health | Outdoor Learning

Childhood obesity continues to be a major problem across the...

Inspections Clinic: Early years inspections

• Early Years | Inspections

Inspection is stressful for most nursery managers, but good...

A leading role for early years

• Early Years

Derren Hayes speaks to Tracy Brabin MP, shadow early years...

Special Report: Early Childhood Development

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect | Play

Policymakers and practitioners are boosting support for...

How I Got Here: Early years chef lecturer Sean Cowden

• Early Years | Early years education | Careers

Sean Cowden, early years chef lecturer at the London Early...

Test and learn approach improves outcomes in Southend

• Early Years | Children's centres | Children's Services | Families/Parenting

Families in deprived areas of Southend are being supported...

Intergenerational co-located care, Japan

• Early Years

CYP Now has teamed up with the Churchill Fellowship to...

How I Got Here: Rebecca de Vyea, specialist speech therapist

• Early Years

Rebecca de Vyea is a specialist speech and language...

How I Got Here: Debra Barton, early years specialist lead, Ministry of Defence

• Early Years

Debra Barton, early years specialist lead, global education...

International Focus: Breakfast clubs, Canada

• Early Years

Greggs Foundation’s Lynne Hindmarch outlines what she...

University nursery uses latest tech to hit net zero by 2030

• Children's Services | Early Years | Nurseries

An ambitious project combining sustainable energy, digital...

Promoting respect for diversity in the community

• Families/Parenting | Children's Services | Early Years

Groundbreaking programme helps parents realise how their...

Training targets better early years communication

• Early Years | Early years education

Norwich invests in Communication Champions training to...

Play helps children learn to be Healthy Movers

• Early Years | Health | Early years education | Mental Health

Early years healthy living programme promotes children’s...

Early years oral health programmes – three top tips

• Early Years | Health

Revisions to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)...

Norfolk County Council: Local spotlight on children's centres

• Early Years | Social Care

East Anglian council has plans to remodel early years...

Scheme helps new parents take the leap to get support

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect

Service specialises in parent-infant psychotherapy.

Peer-support schemes build mothers' confidence

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect

Engages vulnerable mothers in peer support programmes.

Liverpool service enhances parent-child attachment

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect

Works with parents pre and postnatal.

FNP cuts smoking and raises breastfeeding rates

• Early Years

Family Nurse Partnership has been adapted and refined to...

How language support gets families talking

• Early Years

Children and families get early support to live healthier...

Cambridge Day Nursery

• Early Years | Outdoor Learning | Play

City-centre nursery prioritises outdoor play, with the...

Blackpool Better Start

• Early Years

Ten-year initiative aims to improve outcomes for young...

Rose Vouchers project

• Early Years

Barnsley Council scheme provides parents with young children...

Bishop Alexander LEAD Academy

• Early Years

Many pupils enter Nottinghamshire primary below expected...

Ask the Experts: Youth centre social media policy

• Early Years | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection

Our expert panel offers advice on social networking for...

Ask the Experts: Making a move to management

• Careers | Early Years | Early years education | Nurseries | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Youth Work

Our expert panel offers advice on staff supervision, team...

Woodland Nursery

• Early Years | Early years education | Nurseries | Education | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Outdoor Learning

London-based nursery inspired by the Forest School approach,...

Behind the Inspection Rating: Pre-school hones independence

• Early Years | Early years education | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Ofsted

Clyst Valley Pre-School, Devon - Pre-school inspection -...

Ask the Experts: Accessing mental health funding

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Sexual health | Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Youth Work

Our panel offers advice on mental health services funding,...

Behind the Inspection Rating: Shared leadership delivers success

• Early Years | Nurseries | Management | Leadership | Ofsted

Grasmere Nursery School, Luton; Nursery school inspection;...

Ask the Experts: Address suspicions over legal highs

• Early Years | Nurseries | Health | Drugs and alcohol | Children's Services | Information sharing | Management | Commissioning | Leadership | Service configuration | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Work | Participation | Youth clubs

Our panel offers advice on the dangers of legal highs, child...

Ask the Experts: Get the best from governing bodies

• Early Years | Education | Children's Services | Management | Leadership | Youth Work

Our panel offers advice on school governing bodies, new...

Behind the Inspection Rating: Kids Planet helps toddlers explore

• Early Years | Early years education | Leadership | Ofsted

Kids Planet Beamont, Warrington; early years inspection;...

Ask the Experts: Growing food, media stories of abuse, learning from mistakes and youth centre help for Eastern European children

• Early Years | Early years education | Nurseries | Play | Education | Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Work

Our panel offers advice on growing vegetables, telling...

Skills for the Job: How to run outdoor activities

• Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Youth Work | Outdoor Learning

Making the outdoors an everyday experience, whether for...

Ask The Experts: Nursery medicine, CSE concerns, council help for academies and youth film nights

• Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Management | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Work

Our panel offers advice on drugs in nursery settings,...

Parents urged to read and sing to children

• Early Years

Early intervention programme focuses on parental activities...

Ask the Experts: Coping with an extra workload

• Early Years | Education | Children's Services | Management | Social Care | Youth Work

Our panel offers advice on taking on extra duties,...

Behind the Inspection Rating: Centre beats closure to prosper

• Early Years | Play | Inspections

After months on the edge of closure, the Jonathan Page...

How Down syndrome pupils reach their potential

• Early Years | Education | Special Educational Needs | Disabled children and young people | Youth Work

Teacher Wendy Uttley set up a training service to improve...

Behind the Inspection Rating: Centre offers five-star provision

• Early Years | Management | Service configuration | Ofsted | Inspections

Harpenden children's centres monitor children's progress to...

Skills for the Job: Working with blind children

• Careers | Early Years | Play | Education | Health | Disabled children and young people | Children's Services | Social Care | Youth Work | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Understanding the impact of visual impairments can make a...

Behind the Inspection Rating: Centre plugs in to local needs

• Early Years | Inspections

Netherfield Children's Centre's strong record at engaging...

Skills for the job: Working with autistic children

• Careers | Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Social Care | Youth Work | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Patience and consideration are qualities needed to work...

Ask the expert: Use blocks to enhance playtime

• Early Years

Daily roundup: Child protection, benefit caps, and nursery closure

• Early Years | Education | Social Care | Housing and benefits | Letters

Northamptonshire's safeguarding board chairman calls for...

Ask the Expert: Nursery home corners

• Early Years | Nurseries

Centre thrives on clarity of purpose

• Early Years | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Ofsted | Inspections

Newport Children's Centre, Waltham Forest, London;...

Behind the Inspection Rating: ‘Little Renoirs' get their needs met

• Early Years | Early years education | Nurseries | Leadership | Ofsted | Inspections

Wentworth Nursery School and Children's Centre | Nursery...

Ask the Expert: Bad staff attitudes

• Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work

Ask the Expert: Appreciating animals

• Early Years | Education | Health | Management | Leadership | Youth Work | Outdoor learning

Good Practice: How parent peer mentoring has helped to improve children's mental health in Southwark

• Early Years | Health | Mental health

The Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities scheme has...

Leadership: How all our children's centres survived the cuts in Hertfordshire

• Early Years | Management | Leadership

In February 2011, Hertfordshire County Council leader Robert...

Leading and delivering early childhood services: 10 insights from 20 places across England and Wales

• Children's Services | Early help | Early Years

This report gives 10 insights for leading maternity and...

Impact of Cuts to Spending on Children’s Centres on Childhood Obesity

• Early Years | Health | Funding

When government-funded Sure Start children’s centres...

Impact Study on Early Education Use and Child Outcomes Up to Age Five Years

• Early Years | Early years education

This report looks at links between children’s development in...

Shared Picture Book Reading and Language Development

• Early Years

Training parents to share picture books with their children...

The Impact on Child Outcomes of Providing a Parenting Intervention Alongside Treatment for Post-natal Depression

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect

Post-natal depression (PND) is estimated to affect 10-15 per...

Supporting Parents and Infants Through the Healthy Child Programme

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect

This is a comprehensive review of the latest evidence of...

The Impact of Neglect on Brain Development

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect

Johanna Bick and Charles A. Nelson's 2017 paper provides a...

The Early Years Workforce in England: A Comparative Analysis

• Early Years

The Education Policy Institute examine the demographics and...

Parents' Experiences of Early Care and Education for Children Born Prematurely

• Early Years | Health

The number of babies born prematurely has increased in the...

How Does Video Interaction Guidance Contribute to Infant and Parental Mental Health and Well-Being?

• Early Years | Mental Health | Play

Video interaction guidance (VIG) uses video to help parents...

The Effects of Mother-Infant Singing on Emotional Closeness, Affect, Anxiety And Stress Hormones

• Early Years | Mental Health | Play

This article provides evidence on the psychobiological...

Evaluation of the Elklan Talking Matters Programme

• Early Years | Education

Researchers from the University of Sheffield's department of...

Evaluation of Early Implementation of 30 Hours Free Childcare

• Early Years

They surveyed 561 providers delivering the extended hours...

Special Report: Attachment and Neglect - Research Evidence

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect

Research Report: Evaluating a Demand-side Approach to Expanding Free Pre-school Education

• Early Years

Researchers find that the positive effects of the free...