Children can create masks and take part in a grand parade during a carnival in Exhibition Road, London, to celebrate the free art event the Big Draw on 2 October. The carnival marks the start of more...
* We have ten copies of Too Many Teddies by Gus Clarke (Andersen Press, 4.99) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'Teddies',...
* We have ten copies of Key Times for Play - The first three years by Julia Manning-Morton and Maggie Thorp (Open University Press, 14.99) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and...
Little acorns grow into big nuts, as we used to say... Well, what could be more fun for Christmas? A new CD, 'Little Acorns', offers children and their nannies a singalong session with artists such as...
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Lisa Harker, head of Strategy Unit, NSPCC, calls for children's centres services to be refocused on supporting children under the age of two
There are some new faces in our Top 25 table of nursery groups this year, and in our extensive directory too. Catherine Gaunt analyses the latest moves in both size and quality of the chains.
A way to vaccinate newborn babies safely and reduce infant mortality may have been discovered by immunologists in the US. A study at the Children's Hospital in Boston found a molecule, called...
* Camden Council's Families in Focus project has been short-listed in the Community Cohesion category of the national Sustainable Communities Awards 2006. The project is aimed at hard-to-reach four-...