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The health visitors' union Unite has called for the Government to ring-fence health visitor budgets to combat the drop in the number of health visitors.
Schools in Worcestershire are being asked to take part in a one-year pilot scheme to extend the free early years entitlement to 15 hours from September. The local authority is suggesting that schools...
Children's centres should place more emphasis on home visits to reach the most disadvantaged families, new practice guidance for local authorities is advising. Children's minister Beverley Hughes said...
Nursery head teachers have prompted the leader of education at Edinburgh council to call for routine health visitor visits to be resumed to families with children older than six weeks.
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Problems with Scotland's childcare systems have been highlighted by the children's charity Barnardo's. As part of its current 'Silver Spoon' campaign against child poverty (pictured above), Bar-...
Richer families are taking up a disproportionate number of registered childcare places compared to families on low or moderate incomes, according to a report for the Department for Work and Pensions...
Tips for saving work from April Jones, director of Computer Kids We all have good intentions at the beginning of the nursery year to keep a tidy desk, sort and file things away and keep on top of all...
The Government’s Troubled Families programme is to be expanded to help an additional 400,000 families, including those with children under five.
Mental health problems afflicting pre-school children may be prevented if greater steps are taken to help their parents before the children are born and in the crucial period shortly afterwards, says...