The apprenticeship levy will worsen the North-South divide in training opportunities and jobs, a leading think-tank has warned.
Community Playthings' new resource 'Play and the Revised EYFS' has advice on how to create enabling environments
Private day nurseries in England will have to increase their fees to fund the salary increases needed to recruit and retain staff. The warning was made last week by the National Day Nurseries...
A study has measured the effects of music therapy on children's emotional well-being, reports Karen Faux.
Creative stimulation is just one of many services on offer at this early excellence centre, writes Julian Grenier The Thomas Coram Early Childhood Centre is part of a unique campus of services for...
More than 50 public health experts have signed a letter to the Chancellor and health secretary, calling for an increase in the value of the Healthy Start vouchers for low-income families.
Research shows that iodine deficiency in pregnant women can impair a child's cognitive development. Ruth Thomson examines the impacts of the deficiency and outlines what can be done to prevent it.
Young children will love playing with dragons without thinking them scary or real, using these activities from Helen Shelbourne Dragons are the subject of countless ancient myths and legends but are...
How one setting in Kent’s sustainable ethos takes in everything, from the building it operates out of to the way the children eat their meals. By Nicole Weinstein
* There is still time for young photographers to enter their efforts in the competition for National Childcare Week 2001, as the deadline has now been extended until 16 April. Children are invited to...