The Northern Ireland Executive has spent 6.3m to fund 23 Sure Start programmes which support more than 17,000 children aged from nought to three, deputy first minister Mark Durkan said last week. More...
Physical fitness differences in children with and without motor learning difficulties In this Australian study, 52 children with motor learning difficulties (MLD), aged five to eight years, were...
Australian research examining exposure to classroom noise of 25 full-time teaching staff in 14 pre-school settings. One teacher exceeded the maximum permissible level of daily noise exposure for...
Education minister Peter Peacock dropped in to visit Brackens Primary School in Dundee last week and launched a website to help parents get more involved with their children's education. The revamped...
Teddies nursery group has appointed Carole Edmond as its new managing director. In her previous role as head of BUPA Childcare, of which Teddies is part, Ms Edmond led BUPA's move into childcare...
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...
Scotland Health scares flooded the media again last week. No sooner had we digested the news of the cancer-causing dye Sudan 1 being found in hundreds of processed foods than we were hit with more...
Gender stereotypes are harming our children’s health, happiness and career prospects – so what can be done to challenge them? Annette Rawstrone reports
The Government wants to see qualified teachers attached to children's centres, delegates at a major conference in London were told last week. The role teachers will play was one of the issues raised...
Researchers are calling for further scrutiny of child mental health following a Danish study of almost 700,000 children which found that the likelihood of a five-year-old being diagnosed with a...