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Measles is a highly infectious viral illness. It is now uncommon in the UK due to the effectiveness of vaccination. However, since 2016, there has been a rise in cases because take-up of the measles,...
Day nurseries and other small businesses in the UK and Northern Ireland have been warned to be on their guard after companies have called out of the blue claiming to be owed hundreds of pounds for...
It is tempting for early years practitioners to stick to traditional 'recording' and document only the skills and knowledge that are easy to assess and ascertain in a child, such as: * Does he count...
Cuts in funding for childcare students have prompted one provider to focus on management training instead, suggesting that Government policy is having the opposite effect of its stated aim of raising...
Curious characters go out to encounter the world with surprising twists, in books reviewed by Alison Boyle RUGGLES. by Anne Fine and illustrated by Ruth Brown.
Misunderstandings about the nature of extended schools seem to abound- that they involve keeping children cooped up in school for a mandatory 10 hours a day, or that teachers will be working as...
Greenfields Nursery School and Children’s Centre, Southall
In 2003, the national standards for under-eights daycare and childminding in England were repackaged with the Sure Start heading. But can anybody find any reference in these revised booklets to 'Birth...
More than 500 childcare places are to disappear with the demise of Scottish chain KidCare and the BBC's decision to phase out its workplace nurseries (see News, page 4). The two events, while...
We report in this issue on interesting moves in Islington, north London, where a council pilot scheme is keeping reception-age children at children's centres to complete the whole of the Foundation...