Janet Moyles wrote a most informative feature ('Sound effects', 9 February) which I'm sure caused many early years practitioners to reflect on their practice. I am a parent partnership coach, helping...
An extra 140m for early years provision has been promised in the Welsh Assembly Government's three-year draft budget, with 67m for early education and the remainder for improving children's health...
Only one in every four women in Northern Ireland is still breastfeeding their baby at six weeks, according to a report by the chief medical officer, Dr Henrietta Campbell. The report, Your health...
Childcare staff score lower on awareness of Every Child Matters than local government workers, at 69 per cent and 90 per cent respectively, according to a survey published by the DfES last week....
A guide to raise public awareness of the National Care Standards and what is expected of providers, including nurseries and childminders, has been published by the Scottish Executive. Deputy health...
(Photograph) - Children at Clutha Day Nursery in Kinning Park, Glasgow, learn how to look after their teeth in a scheme by Greater Glasgow NHS to tackle poor oral health in the city. The scheme...
Sunderland City Council is investing 1.5m in the second phase of its children's centre programme, with six new centres at Hetton Lyons Nursery School, Oxclose Primary and Nursery Schools, Houghton...
Tricia Pritchard Professional officer at the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses (PANN), and chair of Playpen Dr Richard Woolfson Regular contributor to Nursery World and child psychologist,...
Childminder Mandy Stephenson has won a weekend health spa break for two at Hoar Cross Hall, a stately home in Staffordshire, in the Nursery World/Lemsip Max Hard-working Hero competition (6 November)....
Guidance to ensure that children who are too ill to attend school can continue to receive an education was issued to all local authorities by the Scottish Executive last week. Education authorities...