The all-party education select committee report on early education which was published back in January said, 'We recommend that no childminder should be allowed to smack any child in their care'. I...
A schools and counselling service for Northern Ireland schoolchildren was launched last week by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) as part of its Full Stop campaign...
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition to save a hospital workplace nursery in Manchester threatened with closure. Bunnyhops, the staff nursery at Prestwich Hospital, has been going for more...
The recommendations of the Better Communication Research Programme (BCRP), the largest ever programme of research into children's speech, language and communication services in the UK, put an emphasis...
(Photograph) - Children visiting last months's Grampian Food Festival climbed aboard a 'countryside classroom on wheels', a unit provided by the Royal Highland Education Trust that can be set up in...
The Child Povery Action Group has called on Chancellor Gordon Brown to put reducing child poverty at the centre of this week's Pre-Budget Statement. CPAG director Martin Barnes said, 'Progress is...
The official opening of Cramlington West Children's Centre in Northumberland was attended by Father Christmas as well as Barnado's chief executive Martin Narey. The centre has been created in...
'It is scandalous that the Government has ignored the view of virtually every child protection and health professional in the country. The Dickensian idea of reasonable chastisement has no place in a...
The Welsh Assembly is set to consider the findings of a year-long review of special needs provision by its Health and Social Services Committee. The review found that while there were pockets of good...
(Photograph) - Four-year-olds Emma and Layla admire the Persian New Year display in the foyer of Gwendolin House Nursery in Putney, London. Persian New Year, or Norooz, begins on 21 March, the first...