Childcarers with wanderlust are invited to apply for the Lady Allen of Hurtwood Memorial Trust annual travel awards. The awards, which do not usually exceed 1,000, enable people working with children...
(Photograph) - Twenty children, aged four to 15, from Barnardo's projects in Belfast, Lisburn, Bangor and Banbridge in Northern Ireland visited 10 Downing Street last week for a Christmas party with...
In response to the letter by Maggie Dyer (15 March) about childminders being allowed to smoke and smack, I would like to tell her that we childminders are fighting to change this. We don't want the...
The National Early Years Network is marking the tenth anniversary of the UK's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child by devoting its annual conference to examining the...
New fathers are being refused their right to paid paternity leave because they have not given their employer the 15 weeks' notice period required by law, a new report from Citizens' Advice reveals....
Physical development expert Dr Lala Manners describes a successful training model in Manchester and why it can be replicated, in the final instalment of a two-part series
The consultation on a new apprenticeship standard is ‘deeply flawed’ and ‘bordering on a joke’, sector leaders have said.
Two- to three-year-olds’ expressive language is at a crucial stage. Anne-Marie Tassoni and Penny Tassoni explain what to expect and when you should be concerned
Playworkers are to be given time to bring their qualifications up to the level of those required for out-of-school care in the new National Standards for the Regulation of Daycare. Ofsted took over...