Playworkers in Wales are to be given support in developing local play strategies so they can bid for a share of the Big Lottery Fund's (BIG) 13m children's play programme. BIG has appointed Play...
Where is the future leading for hard-working early years staff? The Children's Workforce Strategy may be pointing the way, as Mary Evans discovers Nursery nurses have traditionally been seen as the...
Thousands of pre-school children are not receiving vital screening for eye defects and diseases, according to a survey by Glasgow Caledonian University's Department of Vision Sciences. The survey,...
A massive reduction in the number of cases of potentially deadly meningitis C has been revealed in new data from the Department of Health. In the past six months there has been a drop of 90 per cent...
Absent colleagues and difficult children can put nursery staff under intolerable pressure. Annette Rawstrone reports on how to keep stress at bay Taking time to address the stress that your employees...
Take time to make lunchtime a sociable and educational experience Lunchtime is ithe invaluable, yet often wasted opportunity for promoting children's social development, for edveloping self-reliance...
<P> Many genetic disorders affect boys more than girls, for a characteristic reason, as doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital explain in our A-Z series on child health </P>
Nursery staff have feared for their physical and mental health while working through successive lockdowns – many of them without access to full sick pay, a study led by the University of Leeds...
Nursery staff have feared for their physical and mental health while working through successive lockdowns – many of them without access to full sick pay, a study led by the University of Leeds...
Westminster has rejected the precedent set by the Scottish Executive's decision to ban physical punishment of children aged under three and has decided to make no moves to change the law on smacking...