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Families with children comprised nearly one third of the 22,908 people helped last year by the homelessness charity Shelter. The worst affected areas were London and the East Midlands. Shelter...
By Irene McGugan MSP, Shadow Deputy Minister for Children and Education. Further to the news story about the cost of childcare and the Scottish National Party's position (9 August), I would like to...
The revised Early Years Foundation Stage and its Characteristics of Effective Learning provide an opportunity to change practice in Key Stage 1 - and the new Ofsted inspection framework allows...
The number of lone-parent families in Northern Ireland has more than doubled in the past 20 years from 11 per cent of families with dependent children in 1983 to 24 per cent today, according to data...
By pooling experience and expertise, early years practitioners could bring about real advances in under-threes provision, say Drs Peter Elfer and Jools Page
Isabel Adams, aged two, from Kensal Green Nursery in London, gave the Mayor of Brent, Ralph Fox, some drawing tips at an event to mark Parents' Week (20 - 26 October). During the week to celebrate the...
A debate in the House of Lords last week flagged up the shortage of speech and language therapists in children's services (see News, page 6). It is not that there are too few people - according to...
I agree very much with the findings of the Save the Children report, Britain's poorest children, on the impact that poverty has on children (News, 11 September). I grew up in a low-income family...
Ofsted's latest report on the early years and childcare sector paints a broadly positive picture of day-to-day operations in the sector (see News, page 6), brimming as it is with examples of good...
* The Big Lottery Fund - the joint operating name of the New Opportunities Fund and the National Charities Board - has also awarded 218,785 to the National Childbirth Trust, in collaboration with...