These fun and easy-to-make musical instruments will provide the children with hours of enjoyment, says Lynne Garner. So, get ready to feel the beat! Every country has its own range of musical...
Children need to learn only 100 words before moving straight on to reading books, a new study claims. Researchers at Warwick University Institute of Education analysed more than 900,000 words from...
Two of the biggest headaches for anyone holding a children's party - how to keep the kids busy and what to give them to take home with them - could be solved in one go thanks to a new business called...
The Government has admitted that an additional 200,000 children will fall into poverty because of the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill.
If our child safety quiz on page 6 shows that you're dangerously clueless in such matters, you could ask your employer to send you on a first aid course tailor-made for nannies and au pairs. Safe and...
Political party manifestos have been emerging left, right and centre over recent days. And as the NSPCC points out this week (see News, page 5), politicians of all persuasions have been quick to grab...
Nursery staff have feared for their physical and mental health while working through successive lockdowns – many of them without access to full sick pay, a study led by the University of Leeds...
Parents will be able to carry over any unused hours from their free early years entitlement to use when they want later, in plans unveiled as part of the next stage of the Government's childcare...
A joint report by leading children’s charities has found that councils have been forced to halve early intervention spending on vulnerable children over the last decade.
For me, one of the Government's most important commitments has been our offer of 15 hours of free early education for all disadvantaged two-year-olds. Now that offer is being extended even further to...