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Children's centres should place more emphasis on home visits to reach the most disadvantaged families, new practice guidance for local authorities is advising. Children's minister Beverley Hughes said...
Nursery head teachers have prompted the leader of education at Edinburgh council to call for routine health visitor visits to be resumed to families with children older than six weeks.
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It's impossible to know just how much money is being defrauded by parents falsely claiming childcare costs under the Working Families Tax Credit, but suspicions are growing that it could be a huge,...
With a recent study linking obesity to insufficient sleep, Meredith Jones Russell asks how practitioners and parents can ensure that children get enough rest day and night
A new guide from the charity Grandparents Plus offers help to grandparents who provide emotional, practical and financial support to families.
Problems with Scotland's childcare systems have been highlighted by the children's charity Barnardo's. As part of its current 'Silver Spoon' campaign against child poverty (pictured above), Bar-...
By Lord Victor Adebowale, chief executive of Turning Point Turning Point's recent campaign 'Bottling It Up' highlights the problems faced by one in 11 children (1.3 million) in the UK living with...
It's hard to remember when a Government appointment was met with quite such an enthusiastic welcome. The news that Lesley Staggs has become the first-ever national director of the Foundation Stage is...
The Government’s Troubled Families programme is to be expanded to help an additional 400,000 families, including those with children under five.