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Islington has become the first local authority in England to adopt a policy to ensure that children experience and learn about risk through play.
The Scottish Executive has pledged to continue supplying additional resources to rural local authorities to provide early education and childcare. From April 2002, this funding will no longer be held...
It seems that getting the language of early years education and childcare right is a struggle for Government speech writers. Take education secretary Ruth Kelly's words to the IPPR last week (see...
The Government has been very keen to stress how important it is to listen to parents' views about smacking, and the results of various polls of the public are used to justify maintaining physical...
Great media prominence is being given to the Government's early childhood policy, with Penelope Leach's and Oxford University's recent research finding that, all other factors being equal, young...
Ofsted's first national analysis of childcare provision since taking over its inspection and regulation in September 2001 seems to show cause for optimism about quality, with improvements being made...
The amount of state intervention in the lives of individuals is a particularly pointed issue in childcare and parenting, with government interference in all areas constantly referred to as 'the nanny...
Having read the news of the research carried out on target setting in the early years ('Children gain when they can set targets', 7 December), I'm not sure many of us needed to be told that school...
The charity Barnardo's has had to withdraw its most recent advertising campaign, 'There are no silver spoons for children born into poverty', after a record 466 complaints were made to the Advertising...
Staff at Technotots nursery in Dundee were 'stunned and delighted' last week when the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care did a U-turn and said the nursery did not need the go-ahead from...