As parents we all want the best start in life for our children, and that includes good health. But quite often without intention or awareness we can damage our children's health when we smoke around...
From next month, junk food advertising will be banned from television programmes made for pre-school children and programmes likely to appeal to children aged under nine, following a ruling last week...
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
The Department of Health has backtracked on plans to introduce a more accurate way of testing for Group B streptococcus in pregnant women.
In this issue of Nursery Business, we bring you up to date with the inspection changes due to come into effect in April and take a look at the growing popularity of timber-frame and modular buildings,...
This week's national policy seminar held by 4Children examined the childcare gains and challenges in the five years since the report by the Childcare Commission, which set out demands for investment...
The 25 new quality assurance schemes endorsed by the Investors in Children (IiC) kitemark have been named by the Department for Education and Skills. Details of the first 25 schemes, set up to raise...
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,...
How one setting in West Sussex is encouraging the children to go barefoot outside. Meredith Jones Russell reports
Call me pedantic, but it does upset me when I see incorrect small-world play scenes, as in the recent eight-page 'All About' pull-out (Nursery World, 4 May). A photograph shows children playing with...