Five ‘back office’ employees – spanning health and safety, customer services, recruitment, finance and catering – tell Annette Rawstrone what inspires them in their role
Family support outreach workers (FSOWs) are employed by children's services as part of the Sure Start Children's Centre initiative to improve the health, education and wellbeing of children and...
The Department of Health has launched a second public education campaign, at a cost of 700,000, to highlight the dangers of using antibiotics unnecessarily.
Targets for Sure Start local programmes have been missed and it is proving difficult for them to tie a knot with health services. Simon Vevers finds out why Chancellor Gordon Brown hailed them as...
Dealing with teenage smokers in your setting will require sensitivity, but there are ways to tackle the issue without being heavy-handed. By Eve Boggenpoel the spectre of ill health and early death...
New registration and inspection standards for children's services for under-12s in Northern Ireland were sent out for consultation last week. Drafted by the Department of Health, Social Services and...
England's chief medical officer professor Dame Sally Davies has called for the Healthy Start scheme to be extended to all children under five.
This serious genetic condition is explained by Jody Blake, information manager at WellChild.
The Scottish Independent Nurseries Association (SINA) has called on the Scottish Executive to give nurseries guidance on having policies on the MMR vaccine. SINA said that childcare workers needed...
<P> An early diagnosis of sickle cell anaemia can save a life. Learn to spot the symptoms in the latest part of our A-Z of health by doctors at <B> Great Ormond Street Hospital </B> </P>