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Every MP and minister in the UK received at least one Valentine's card last week, courtesy of Unison. The public services union sent out cards picturing a broken heart with the message, 'Don't wreck...
The 'cotton wool kid' - cosseted, watched over, insulated from all possible harm - has become a potent symbol of our fear-filled, risk-averse times. Children are actually safer today than at any...
Going for a new job and need to test your know-how? Try our true or false quiz. By Meg Jones, childcare and early years consultant 1 The amount of sleep needed by young children is as varied as that...
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell thinks that the smacking debate exposes a very peculiar approach to private life So, adults have the right to hurt and humiliate children. That's the law.
Making bookmarks during a 'night and day' topic provided an ideal opportunity for our children to develop their manipulative skills and to learn how to handle books with understanding. Planned...
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell says irregular funding, not over- regulation, is what bedevils the voluntary sector It seems that the voluntary and community sector is sick of regulation.
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell says Labour's childcare ambitions are exceeding its actions needed now Think of the number you started with and double it - that's the message from everyone in...
Playworkers are in a good position to free a child from a restrictive role they have adopted due to their family dynamics, explains Andrea Clifford-Poston Children are never simply themselves. They...
Just as children must learn how to learn, so do students of childcare, and it starts with thinking about how you are going to tackle a course Congratulations. You have decided on your career and you...
Tax relief for childcare should be available for all working parents and not just those on lower incomes, Conservative party leader David Cameron has said. In a speech to the National Family and...