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Using pictures of young children usually brings a happy response, but before you let them be taken in your setting there are certain procedures to follow, as Viv Hampshire explains.
Settings can access information, advice and training from a wide variety of charities to improve their care of young children with varied special educational needs. Autism & Asperger syndrome
I am delighted to be writing this as the new president of the National Childminding Association (NCMA). I have worked with the organisation during its 30-year history and have seen first hand how the...
The UK Government stubbornly insists on league tables as a means of driving up educational attainment, standards of health care and so on, despite widespread opposition. It may not be so keen,...
Set the children on a journey through their imaginations with activity ideas from Helen Shelbourne The story On the Way Home by Jill Murphy is about a little girl with a hurt knee walking home to tell...
Of all the areas of childcare, it is probably childminding that has changed the most over the years since the National Childcare Strategy was introduced. And it is the childminding networks that have...
Children and their carers can get in the Christmas spirit with the popular purple dinosaur Barney. In his new video, 'Barney's Christmas Star', Barney and his friends learn about festive traditions...
We report in this issue on interesting moves in Islington, north London, where a council pilot scheme is keeping reception-age children at children's centres to complete the whole of the Foundation...
Use the following questions as starting points to evaluate the ways in which you approach parental involvement. 1 To what extent do the 'Common Features of Effective Practice' and the 'Principles for...