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MPs are being urged to back an early day motion to stop parents inflicting physical injuries on children in the name of 'reasonable chastisement'. The motion was tabled last week by David Hinchcliffe,...
More parents than ever in England are using formal childcare to look after their children during the week, according to research by the National Centre for Social Research (NCSR), launched to coincide...
The incredible pace of change within the early years and childcare sector is once again revealed in a major report this week (see News, page 4). But with its good news of continuing growth come...
Next month, the Government begins a double advertising and marketing drive about early years education and childcare. On the one hand, it is renewing its efforts to persuade more people, particularly...
In a new series of columns penned by senior health visitors, Rachel Costis, operational manager for public health nursing at Swindon Borough Council, sets out key safeguarding lessons from two recent...
Why are local authorities and health services bickering over their obligations to children's centre services? Simon Vevers reports Partnership working between local authorities and health...
The DfES has launched a consultation on the rationalisation of grant funding from the Children, Young People and Families Directorate to voluntary organisations, which proposes to reduce bureaucracy...
Further to the news stories on the inquest into the death of five-month-old Thomas Egan as the result of an allergic reaction at a Jigsaw day nursery (News, 30 January and 6 February), it is not good...
National Parents' Week this week has been marked by the publication of several reports into family life today in the UK, including Making Britain Family Friendly from the National Family and Parenting...
The news story (News, 18 March) about the intimidation of non-Unison nursery nurses during the strike in Scotland rang a bell with me. I too have been subjected to the 'cold shoulder' by my striking...