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Scotland's first-ever School Awards have been launched by the Scottish Executive. The awards celebrate academic excellence in nursery, primary, secondary and special schools. First minister Jack...
Early intervention is vital for improving the health of children and young people, and practitioners have opportunities to make a real difference, say Dr Claire Lemer and Leonora Weil.
A choice of fitness programmes for children from birth to three are offered in a new booklet launched by two Solihull-based educationalists. The booklet, Ready, Steady, Go, is an eight-page practical...
I am in full agreement with the comments by Stephen Burke, director of the Daycare Trust (News, 25 October), about the lack of appropriate childcare for children who have special needs. I run one of...
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
This is a heartfelt plea to all nursery voucher providers. Please make your systems more 'user friendly'! I own five children's day nurseries and accept vouchers from 14 different companies. I have...
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, the US-based specialist in employer-sponsored childcare, has bought Kinderquest, the UK's largest provider of workplace nurseries. This latest acquisition adds 49...
I read with interest the feature on the education select committee report on the early years ('Backbench view', 25 January) and the suggestion that the Government develop a 'ladder of training for...
Care Commission staff, local authority workers, development and support staff, trainers and heads of childcare services will be turning out in force at a series of seminars on the new national...
The private talk a child engages in while playing is a tool in their language development, with a lot to tell practitioners, says Anne O'Connor.