Parents of young children still face a postcode lottery over health visitor access, according to statistics released by the Family and Parenting Institute.
Scotland's largest befriending organisation for children, bfriends, merged with Children 1st on 1 April. Children 1st chief executive Margaret McKay, said, 'bfriends had reached a point at which it...
A project on animals offers huge scope for children's learning across the early years curriculum and a seemingly limitless list of animals on which to focus: pets, farm animals, minibeasts, birds,...
Children's awareness of health issues is the target of a new expert unit set up by the Scottish Executive. The Health Promoting Schools Unit will be led by Margaret McGhie, a former teacher with...
Children’s mental health services are ‘buckling under pressure’ in the wake of the pandemic, says Anne Longfield’s Commission on Young Lives, which calls on the two Conservative leadership candidates...
The decision to change the way SATS are carried out at Key Stage 1 in England's primary schools is good news for Foundation Stage practitioners. Greater emphasis on teacher assessment of pupils rather...
Nursery owner and University of Warwick lecturer Caroline Jones has seen a raft of changes to early years legislation and inspection since she set up her first nursery at her home in 1989. Here, she...
Universal early years services continue to bear the brunt of cuts to public health services, with no targeted help for children and families in poverty, children’s doctors warn today.
Employers can't ask prospective employees about their health, but many employers are in fact unknowingly breaking the law, as Jacqui Mann of HR4Nurseries explains