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The importance of social and emotional development for young children is a major focus in this week's issue of Nursery World. Our project outline (pages 18-20) has lots of great ideas to help children...
Play with small, fantasy figurines is an ideal way to address language impoverishment and help to meet the aims of the 'Every Child a Talker' project, says Michael Jones.
Private and voluntary sector providers are often quoted as calling for a 'level playing field' with state-funded childcare. This week there's good news and bad news - some bits of the field appear to...
Despite hanging back on developing a Facebook page for the Old Station nursery group, managing director Sarah Steel now believes that online networking can form part of a coherent social media plan.
After watching two videos on vaccination, one for and one against, at college, my whole opinion on vaccination changed. I would not have had my four children vaccinated at all. A natural decline was...
Proposals for childcare vouchers may not offer immediate relief but their benefits will be felt in the long term says Susan McGhee, commercial director of Bertram Nursery Group
More than a quarter of children in the UK are growing up in families with a number of difficulties, including financial hardship and parental depression, that are risking their cognitive and...
I am in two minds over Ofsted's proposal to put information about childminders in England on the internet (News, 3 April). In one way, I don't agree with this, as it's important to protect the...
Speech and language strategy Time to Talk is improving children’s communication skills in Warwickshire, finds Annette Rawstrone