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Dr Kath Dickinson, manager of SEND to Learn Nursery in Northumberland, explains the procedures her setting followed for staff, families and children after the death of a child.
Emotional Literacy has been identified as key to a child's development. But what is it, why is it so important in the early years and what can practitioners do to nurture it? asks Yasmin Mukadam.
The UK’s second largest nursery chain Bright Horizons has bought Little Unicorn Day Nurseries, a group of four nurseries in London.
It is vital that early years practitioners help make families aware of the services on offer in their local area, says Beverley Hughes.
Surrogacy families: parental functioning, parent-child relationships and psychological development at age two Second phase of a longitudinal study of families created through surrogacy. Around the...
Freedom of movement is essential for children's developing minds and emotions as well as their bodies, say Anne O'Connor and Anna Daly.
An estimated half a million visits to families by health visitors are not happening due to savage cuts in debt-ridden Primary Care Trusts, the Amicus/Community Practitioners and Health Visitors...
Thoughtful practitioners will identify what may be preventing children from doing their best, as Chris Dukes and Maggie Smith demonstrate.
The economic incentives offered to encourage mothers to return to work ignore the parent's crucial role in the early years, Sally Goddard Blythe believes
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.