Nursery teachers in Scotland have completed a basic teaching qualification taking three or four years and then undertaken an additional qualification in order to become a teacher in infants and/or...
Teenage girls living in deprived areas are four times more likely to become pregnant than girls in affluent areas, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics. Across the...
Seventy students from training organisation Experiential Play in Glasgow attended a ceremony at the city's Royal Academy of Music and Drama on 28 October to celebrate completing their SVQ levels 2, 3...
A series of programmes on the Every Child Matters reform agenda, extended schools and children's trusts is being shown on Teachers' TV on Saturday 4 February. Programmes are scheduled to run...
* First Place Nursery in Radlett, Hertfordshire, opened its doors on 4 September. Children who are starting at the new nursery had a sneak preview of the building at two special 'welcoming events' on...
The first award to honour the capital's best playwork professionals is being launched by London Play. Nominees for the Lifetime in Play in London award must have worked with children and young people...
* Lanterns Children's Centre is one of eight buildings shortlisted for the Civic Building of the Year Award 2006. The Winchester centre was designed by Hampshire County Council architects. Its...
Barnardo's has launched its Forester's Big Toddle 2005, a sponsored half-mile walk for the under-fives. As well as raising money for Barnardo's, nurseries can keep 25 per cent of the funds to help...
We look at how one small group of settings in London makes new children and their families feel secure through its key person and settling-in approach. By Hannah Crown