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New research, due at the end of the month, will examine the success of a programme aimed at giving early years practitioners a better understanding of how babies and toddlers’ language and literacy...
How can organised outdoor spaces compensate for children’s lack of risk and challenge in everyday life? Nicole Weinstein investigates
Take the children to an after-school club or start your own, as Jan Hurst suggests in the last of our series on organised activities Encouraging the child in your charge to join a club, after school...
The importance of practitioners taking a genuine interest in families, their backgrounds and circumstances, to help improve everyday practice, is considered by Helen Wheeler and Joyce Connor in an...
The number of overweight children is soaring, mainly due to lack of exercise. But doesn't food play a part too? Mary Whiting explains how to avoid excess calories
The number of overweight children is soaring, mainly due to lack of exercise. But doesn't food play a part too? Mary Whiting explains how to avoid excess calories It's simple,' someone once told me....
A cause of infant injury or death that is hard to diagnose is easier to prevent by educating parents and carers, as <B> Lena Engel </B> reports
Observe three children digging in the sand and you will see three different approaches. Philip Waters looks at how playworkers can respond to a child's playful needs Imagine three children of similar...
In the first of a new series on 'play theory', playwork co-ordinator Philip Waters explores the different types of children's play and how to offer a child a freely-chosen play environent Not too long...
In Northumberland, one setting has created an environment for children with special educational needs and disabilities. By Charlotte Goddard