Dozens of babies and toddlers celebrated the opening of Blossom Years Children's Day Nursery at Chislehurst, Kent, playing outdoors in its large back garden. The nursery was converted from a former...
Children at Perth College Nursery can rest in style on a new wrought-iron bench in their outdoor play area, thanks to the inmates of a nearby prison. A group of prisoners from Castle Huntly Prison...
By Robin Harris, communications manager, Social Enterprise London An often-repeated statistic is that for every one child receiving adequate childcare provision in the UK, there are six who are not....
By Pat Wills, headteacher at Claremont Community Primary School and Centre of Excellence, Blackpool Spending time in the pre-schools of Reggio Emilia brings out the strong family ethic which typifies...
Schools that want to develop childcare provision through the extended schools initiative can find guidance in a new pack from the Pre-school Learning Alliance. Helping Schools, Helping Pre-schools,...
A coalition of charities is calling on the international community to tackle inequality in the spread and treatment of HIV among children. The Global Movement for Children, which includes Oxfam,...
A defunct alphabet that was used in schools in the 1960s and 70s provides important lessons for current approaches to the literacy teaching of young children, discovers Caroline Vollans
(Photograph) - Catherine Barnes (left), a second-year CACHE Diploma in Nursery Nursing student at Derby Tertiary College, has won the second Heinemann Childcare Student of the Year Award. Mrs Barnes...
The Kids' Clubs Network (KCN) held a national conference in London yesterday (31 October) to press for more out-of-school childcare networks. There are 80 in the country but the KCN wants all 150...
(Photograph) - Popular children's TV presenter Floella Benjamin OBE helped Sure Start Honour Oak in south-east London to celebrate its first birthday on 31 Janurary by launching its first playbus. At...