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The importance of a setting's environment to children's sense of security and freedom is a recurring theme, explains Wendy Scott Young children in daycare flourish where the adults working with them...
In a new music-based series, Boogie Mites’ Sue Newman considers how involvement in regular music-making from birth can boost brain development, health and happiness
Parents are embracing the hardline tactics advocated by TV parenting programmes such as 'Supernanny', according to a survey by parenting website Raisingkids.co.uk. It said that 73 per cent of...
'Childcare is now one of the most pressing concerns for unions and parents both in and out of work' Brendan Barber, TUC general secretary, commenting on the TUC and the Daycare Trust report Women,...
Half of the £8.6bn children’s services budget in England is currently being spent on just 73,000 children, meaning millions go without support, the Children’s Commissioner has warned.
From the age of seven, 49 per cent of children use the internet every day, spending an average of one hour 45 minutes online, according to a survey of 1,800 British children aged five to 16 by...
<P>At the heart of the Foundation Stage is a recognition that children learn through play. Are reception classes making the major adjustments required? Mary Evans reports</P>
'Ask the children to show us how,' suggests Nicola Smith in her imaginative and stimulating article regarding child-centred principles in New Zealand (Nursery World, 25 November) - and how we need...
In a safe environment where they feel secure, even very small children can enjoy constructive problem-solving and concentrate for surprising amounts of time, says Anne O'Connor.
In the fifth of our National Strategies features on the Early Years Foundation Stage, Sue Ellis, newly-appointed national director, Early Years, and Claire Wirth, early years senior regional adviser,...