Spending more time in good-quality settings can positively impact a child’s ability to socialise, empathise with their peers and regulate their own behaviour, find researchers.
Children's hospices are charities. They rely on public generosity to help children and their families who are living with the kind of life-limiting or life-threatening conditions that mean they will...
Local authorities will be able to apply for funding to set up family hubs in their area, through a £12m fund launched by the children and families minister, Will Quince.
Working families will be hit hardest by the welfare and benefit cuts announced in the emergency budget and spending review, suffering a loss of around 9.4 billion, says the Trades Union Congress.
A national postcard campaign calling on the Government to make high-quality, affordable childcare accessible to all families was launched last week by the Daycare Trust. The campaign stems from the...
The Government is being urged to announce a strategy for tackling childhood obesity during National Childhood Obesity week, 5-11 July.
We should all be doing it more often and more carefully - especially in nurseries, where better handwashing could drastically reduce infections, says Ruth Thomson.
Nanny employers could face yet another expense if the Government takes up proposals in last month's pension report by Lord Turner. Under the plans, an employer would contribute 3p for every pound of...
The health service has found a way to keep valued parent employees on their shifts. <STRONG> Annette Rawstrone </STRONG> reports
There is wide speculation that children and families minister Sarah Teather is being replaced by David Laws in the cabinet reshuffle.