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Nursery nurses working in maintained settings across Scotland have voted overwhelmingly to take indefinite strike action in pursuit of a salary increase. The strike vote was the latest move in a...
An understanding of fine motor skills and how they affect children's development can help you to provide the best type of resources and support. Penny Tassoni offers expert insight.
The most successful Sure Start local programmes are those where parents have a say in the planning of new services, according to a study from the first national evaluation of the scheme, which...
Every local authority in England will be required by law to have a Children's Trust Board responsible for improving the safety and well-being of all children.
I wholeheartedly welcome the suggestion that Ofsted reveals the results of complaints about daycare provision (News, 15 May). I was unfortunate enough to work in a nursery where children's safety was...
As soon as babies are born they explore the world around them using all of their senses. Children are often surrounded by plastic and other man-made materials; by introducing natural materials you can...
It would seem to be quite a risk for the Coalition Government to ask Frank 'think the unthinkable' Field to carry out a review of poverty and life chances. Here is a character who was a regular...
The children in the Red Room at The Childcare Centre at Darlington College enjoyed discussing their favourite foods and recording them on a chart, says Dionne Sheehan. Planned learning intentions
It is surely time for central Government to get a grip on what is happening locally with state-funded Sure Start programmes and neighbourhood nurseries being set up on the doorstep of existing private...