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...
Pupils in Scotland's primary schools have been invited to enter the Food Standards Agency Scotland's competition to design its Christmas card for this year. The winning entry and 11 runners-up will...
Professional Nanny readers are being offered a special discount price on the new book Spots, Birthmarks and Rashes by our contributor and health visitor June Thompson. This colourfully illustrated...