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The benefits to a child of spending time with a childminder are outlined by Foundation Stage regional advisor Jane Cole in our series on the Celebrating Young Children project When Hannah's mother,...
'Learning to read or to write one's name at three is not necessarily an indication of future academic potential. Einstein didn't learn to read until he was seven' Sue Mardel, primary inspector for...
Choices in Childcare, which was mentioned in the feature 'Juggling act' (15 March), has asked us to point out that it has changed its name to the National Association of Children's Information...
(Photograph) - Three-year-old Dickon Fox shows off his scary creation at an Easter scarecrow-making session at Skidby Mill near Cottingham, East Yorkshire. The event was part of a week of springtime...
Different language rules and cultural attitudes to how children learn provide some valuable insights for practitioners working with bilingual children. Professor Elena Lieven explains.
In the 'developed' world of today the birth rate is under two children per family (about 1.9 here, 1.7 in Australia and 1.2 in Japan). The divorce rate is approaching 40 per cent in the UK, North...
Approaching parents in the street and out shopping to encourage them to use childcare has mixed results, a new study has found.
Nursery World joined children's minister Beverley Hughes, in what would be one of her last official engagements in the position, on a visit to Oak Tree Children's Centre to see one of the 0-7...
The whole learning environment in which young children spend their time needs to offer quality language provision, says Helen Moylett.
The Government will legislate to ensure that adoptions are not being delayed due to problems matching prospective adopters with the same ethnic background as the child.