On a Europe-wide horizon, the child you care for could be a contender in a drawing competition and be invited to travel to Strasbourg for the European Parliament's 'Pet Night' next year. The European...
(Photograph) - Eight-year-old Harry Withers joined other disabled children, parents and health professionals in celebrating the tenth anniversary of Scope's Peto Andras Centre in Islington, London,...
Martin McGuinness has presented awards totalling Pounds 300,000 to a number of summer schools on behalf of the New Opportunity Fund's Out of School Hours Learning Programme. He said, 'Out-of-...
Collaborative working is the theme of the seventh national conference of I CAN, the national educational charity for children who have speech and language difficulties. The conference, Collaboration...
Sure Start's own beginnings perhaps didn't live up to the programme's name, being rather shaky and unclear, but since 1999 the Government's scheme to improve the health and well-being of children in...
Up to 60m is being injected by the Government into the Sure Start programme to extend it to cover pregnant women and their partners, as well as families with children under four, public health...
Inclusion strategies for a child with special needs are described by Jane Cole in our series on the Celebrating Young Children project Bailey has a physical disability caused by cerebral palsy and, as...
Doubling the number of community schools across Scotland is the new goal of the Scottish Executive. Education minister Jack McConnell called on local authorities to work in partnership to develop the...
A new 104m community regeneration fund by the Scottish Executive is aiming to bring improvements for families in the most deprived areas in Scotland. The fund combines and replaces existing programmes...
Start Plus pilot programme has been published by the Institute of Education. The programme aims to reduce the risk of long-term social exclusion for teenage parents and the pilot is based in 20 Health...