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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...
The ten sites chosen to conduct health visitor pilots from children's centres to target socially-excluded families have been named by the DfES and the Department of Health . As part of the...
Every Sure Start children's centre is to have access to a named health visitor, under Government plans unveiled in the Child Health Strategy.
Further concerns have been raised for families with the news that inflation has returned to a 40-year high of 10.1 per cent.
A new report on maternity and antenatal support by the National Lottery Community Fund and the National Children’s Bureau highlights the challenges faced by the midwifery and health visiting...
Changes in the way that the National Health Service's childcare strategy is funded could threaten what has so far been a roaring success story. Simon Vevers investigates With 140 new nursery schemes...
Nine nurseries have been ‘named and shamed’ on the latest minimum wage offenders list. How did they get there, and how easy was it to fall foul of the rules? Ruth Stokes reports
We are extremely sorry that the Professional Nanny conference scheduled to take place earlier this month had to be cancelled by the organisers because of the low number of advance bookings, and we...
The health visitors' union Unite has called for the Government to ring-fence health visitor budgets to combat the drop in the number of health visitors.
A new guide from the charity Grandparents Plus offers help to grandparents who provide emotional, practical and financial support to families.