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An iron overdose in young children could be fatal, the Committee on Safety of Medicines has warned. It said solid dose dietary iron supplements accounted for 2 to 3 per cent of hospital admissions for...
There is a feeling in the air that the future could be uncertain for the Early Years Foundation Stage, although there has been no firm indication yet from the new Government about its intentions.
Until very recently, nearly all our communication with our readers happened via the post or the telephone. Now, e-mail is increasingly the channel by which we receive feedback, queries and...
The Government's £30m school nurseries fund may be great news for schools, but why should private and voluntary nurseries be seen as second-class citizens?
Many fine words are uttered about the need to raise the status of the early years workforce and the professionalism of the sector. Around 600,000 people are now working in early years in an...
What price universal childcare? As publication of the Government's ten-year plan looms, various lobbying organisations have been coming up with some firm figures for the funding needed to make the...
Baroness Blackstone, Minister of State for the Arts, launched 'Quality Training, Quality Play', the new National Strategy for Playwork Education, Training and Qualifications 2002-2005 last month (for...
Schools across the country are up in arms about shortfalls in their budget allocations which, they say, mean that it will be impossible for them to implement the Workload Reduction Agreement, with...
Nearly all of us feel that we watch too much television, and that we should make a bigger effort to do other things. Nearly all of us believe that our children watch too much TV, though we can be only...
If you were one of the nearly seven million people who watched the BBC1 documentary 'Nurseries Undercover' last week, you will no doubt be appalled at the bad practice revealed and worried that...