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Charity calls for action to reduce attainment gap between Scotland's richest and poorest children

Thursday, May 8, 2014

| Nursery World

A new report calls for more focused interventions to close the attainment gap between children from high and low-income households.

Home Learning: Dressing Skills - Parents

Features

Monday, March 10, 2014

| Nursery World

Learning to get dressed is a skill that children need to master. It takes time and practice. Here are some activities that not only help children learn about dressing and caring for their clothes, but also help other aspects of their development.

Stress for boys in infancy could lead to snoring later

News

Friday, March 7, 2014

| Nursery World

Baby boys who experience stressful situations may grow up to snore as adults, according to new research.

A Unique Child: Vulnerable Children: Part 1 - How do your children grow?

Features

Monday, January 27, 2014

| Nursery World

Working with vulnerable children and their families can be demanding, but the right approach will make all the difference to an individual's future. Marion Dowling looks at the barriers and solutions

Children need time to be bored, ex-head says

News

Friday, January 10, 2014

| Nursery World

Boredom can be more beneficial for children’s development than participation in clubs and extra-curricular activities, a leader of prep schools has said.

Children's development suffers when parents work shifts

News

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

| Nursery World

Pre-school children whose parents work outside normal hours are more likely to have cognitive and behavourial problems, finds new research.

Development of 5,000 two-year-olds tracked as part of Government-funded study

News

Friday, October 18, 2013

| Nursery World

Research interviews began last week with families taking part in one of the largest ever Government-funded studies into early years education.

New movement aims to reconnect children with the outdoors

News

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

| Nursery World

A group of organisations concerned with outdoor play and education have come together to help children get back in touch with nature.

Pupil Premium should be extended to the early years to improve social mobility

News

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

| Nursery World

A new report commissioned by the Deputy Prime Minister recommends making three- and four-year-olds eligible for the Pupil Premium.

Intolerant neighbours stop outdoor play

News

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

| Nursery World

Fears about traffic, stranger danger and friction with neighbours are among the factors preventing children playing outside, according to the Playday 2013 survey.

MPs call for joint children's centre and health budgets to protect services

News

Monday, July 15, 2013

| Nursery World

Children's centre budgets should be pooled with those for midwives and health visitors, a cross-party committee of MPs has argued.

Seeds of Empathy launches in England

News

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

| Nursery World

A teaching programme designed to encourage empathy in three- to- five-year-olds will be launched in Lewisham, in London in September.

Malorie Blackman named as Children's Laureate

News

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

| Nursery World

Malorie Blackman, who has won many awards for writing books for teenagers, is the new Children's Laureate.

Disco dancing for under 5s

News

Friday, May 31, 2013

| Nursery World

Children under five can bop until they drop at a new baby disco event running until 15 September at the Southbank centre in central London.

Interview: Karen Graham

Other

Friday, May 31, 2013

| Nursery World

Director of the Centre for the Child, Family and Society and Professor of Childhood and Family Studies, Glyndwr University.

School language programme boosts children's reading

News

Monday, May 13, 2013

| Nursery World

An evaluation of a pilot project led by children's communication charity I CAN has found that a whole school approach to supporting children's speech can result in an average 50 per cent increase in progress in reading skills.

Music therapy can comfort premature babies

News

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

| Nursery World

Playing live music to a premature baby can slow their heartbeat and help the child breathe more easily, a study has found.

Light drinking during in pregnancy 'not harmful'

News

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

| Nursery World

Light drinking during pregnancy does not harm child behavioural or cognitive development, according to new research by University College London.

Interview: Professor Leon Feinstein

Other

Friday, April 19, 2013

| Nursery World

The Early Intervention Foundation's interim head of evidence, and visiting professor at the London School of Economics Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion.

Government funds 5m early education study

News

Thursday, April 18, 2013

| Nursery World

The first major early years research to begin since 1997 will look at the impact of free early education from the age of two on the development of thousands of children.

Cross-party support for Early Intervention Foundation launch

News

Monday, April 15, 2013

| Nursery World

The Early Intervention Foundation will be officially launched today by David Cameron.

Lobby group calls for adverts targeted at young children to be banned

News

Thursday, April 11, 2013

| Nursery World

A group of childhood campaigners are calling for an immediate end to all adverts aimed at young children so they can grow up free from the pressures of consumerism.

A Unique Child: Child Development - First love

Features

Friday, April 5, 2013

| Nursery World

The economic incentives offered to encourage mothers to return to work ignore the parent's crucial role in the early years, Sally Goddard Blythe believes