Childcare Choices & How to Make a Complaint

Is Your Child Ready for School? The 7 Essential Skills for Children to Have Before Starting School By Dr Sarah Alexander. Getting your child ready

Should any early childhood service not be meeting miniumum standards for children’s care and education, including staffing, management, health and safety (see the rules and regulations)

Six Signs of Quality Early Childhood Education. What is quality? Actual quality is about what a parent and child experiences and how they see their

The personal characteristics of the person or people you are leaving your child with are important to consider when making your choice. Are you returning

Home-based. By Dr Sarah Alexander. Home-based childcare is also known as In-home care and as family daycare. Home-based ECE is when someone  looks after up to 4 children at

Teacher-led Centres. By Dr Sarah Alexander. Professionally staffed, teacher-led centres are those that you can leave your child at – these centres are both childcare

Parent-led centre means a licensed centre at which parents are involved in caring for and teaching children. Parents are also involved in the management and

Montessori Rudolf-Steiner and Kindergarten. By Dr Sarah Alexander. Montessori  Montessori early childhood centres or schools are different to walk into from most kindergartens and other

Space and Overcrowding. By Sarah Alexander. When you walk into an early childhood centre or home-based education setting you are likely to feel either one

Arranging childcare. By Dr Sarah Alexander. Most families at some time make personal childcare arrangements.  It is actually very common for families to combine personal

Best age to start. By Dr Sarah Alexander. In England, Prince George had his first day at preschool (a Montessori centre) when he was 2

“Quality” – What is quality in early childhood education really? By Dr Sarah Alexander. It is usual for ‘quality early childhood education’ to be talked about