Staff are likely to work together better after they have had to function as a group away from the workplace, says Mary Evans
Reading Wendy Wallace's feature 'Men wanted' reminded me of another feature, 'Making contact' by John Powell (12 April), which suggested a reason men were deterred from working in nurseries - because...
I was taken aback to read of the Early Childhood Forum's new vision for childhood services (News, 11 December). The Forum had, as a priority, the need for early years practitioners to be graduates and...
A forest school project run by the Scottish Wildlife Trust is one of the beneficiaries of the latest round of grants for children from the Big Lottery Fund.
Michael Rosen’s popular children’s book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt is to be adapted into a TV special.
* Priscilla Alderson (2000) Young Children's Rights. Jessica Kingsley. * Philippe Aries (1962) Centuries of Childhood trans R Baldrick. London: Cape.
* Wales http://www.wales.gov.uk/subichildren/index.htm also try www.childreninwales.org.uk * Scotland http://www.scotland.gov.uk also try www.childreninscotland.org.uk
Revised national guidance and a multimedia resource for Scottish practitioners working with parents from pregnancy, and with babies and children under three, was launched online last week.
Nursery staff, parents and children battled through the severe flooding in many parts of England last week.
Your news story, 'Don't pay for police checks, carers told' (19 July) was right to point out that daycare providers in England and Wales do not have to register with the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)...