The National Children's Bureau's Children's Centre Project (CCP), a consortium of seven children's charities looking at new models of collaborative working, has appointed Dominic Fox as its director....
Two free NVQ courses are offering residents of a housing association in London the chance to brush up on their parenting and childcare skills. Residents of Octavia Housing and Care, which manages...
A major conference on the impact of the forthcoming SEN and Disability Act for children and young people with disabilities in schools and colleges is to be held in London next month. 'Preparing for...
The Daycare Trust is urging early years settings to reach out to fathers and grandparents as this year's National Childcare Week gets underway (2-9 July 2012).
Careful planning will give children the first-hand experiences they need to start learning about writing, says Julian Grenier
Scotland and Wales have better levels of child wellbeing than England, claims a statistician's review of a controversial Unicef report that placed the UK's levels of child wellbeing at the bottom of a...
Congratulations to all the students who have achieved their degrees in Early Childhood Studies, and well done, Nursery World, for such up-to-date and relevant articles as 'My student life' (17 April)....
I was concerned to read Germaine Greer's comment about childcarers (Quote of the week, 22 August). When considering formal, that is, paid-for childcare in the UK today, her statement could hardly be...
Early years practitioners across the UK have until the end of this month to respond to a consultation on the review of the National Occupational Standards and S/NVQs. The Department for Education and...
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...