Scotland's largest befriending organisation for children, bfriends, merged with Children 1st on 1 April. Children 1st chief executive Margaret McKay, said, 'bfriends had reached a point at which it...
Integrated community schools have been successful in supporting vulnerable children, encouraging more active pupil and parental involvement, and increasing the range of activities during and after...
The Scottish Executive has announced funding for a further 14 local authorities to roll out the New Community Schools approach, bringing the total to 30. New Community Schools bring teachers, social...
Introducing babies and toddlers to books will set them on the way to being confident readers later on. Andy McCormack offers some advice and explores examples of age-appropriate titles
Tickton Pre-School and Play Pals in Yorkshire have come together to create an organic community garden from scratch.
The winner of the Community Playthings storage chest competition (Nursery World, 11 August) is Rebecca Taylor from Birch Grove Day Nursery in Cheshire.
As schools in England set out to fulfill the aims of the Government's new Extended Schools programme, they could look to Scotland for a working model, as Mary Evans reports
In part 5 of our series, we look at ways to reduce the cost of resources. By Leah Jones
Thirty children's centres could be created by March 2006 from a combination of new and existing provision under plans by Lancashire County Council. New buildings housing seven children's centres are...
How can settings develop activities that involve the community and use sustainable resources, ask Kids Love Nature’s Sarah Emerson and Liverpool John Moores University’s Diane Boyd and Nicky Hirst