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A nanny was paid 4,000 compensation out of court last month by an employer she was taking to an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal when she was pregnant. Manchester nanny Hayley Peak had taken...
Play with mirrors helps build baby and toddlers' self-awareness and satisfies their fascination with people's movements and expressions
Early years practitioners should be alert to the potential in all of their setting's creative provision for developing children's problem-solving, reasoning and numeracy (PSRN). Linda Pound shows...
The services that local Sure Start programmes offer must not be 'diluted' as children's centres are rolled out across the country, David Blunkett, minister for work and pensions, reminded parents and...
Four local authorities have been designated beacons of best practice for their groundbreaking work within the early years and childcare sector. The councils - Leeds, Somerset, and the London boroughs...
The Government will achieve its 2010 targets of halving child poverty, economic secretary Ed Balls said last week, despite figures showing an increase in the number of families living below the...
Before you can open an after-school club you may welll have to re-organise or expand to accommodate the older children and all the necessary new equipment. here we look at some of your options Screens...
London's play sector has greeted with relief the news that funding to support children's play in the capital will be reinstated. Voluntary sector organisations that support London's most vulnerable...
Two-hundred children with diabetes travelled to the Houses of Parliament last week to lobby for better educational support, following a study claiming that many children with the condition are...
We found many of the arguments in Helen Bromley's phonics feature (Special report, 16 June) to be ill-informed and unsubstantiated. The Clackmannanshire study, for example, is only one small part of...