Storytelling, ‘reptile’ days and using Dr Who to boost literacy and maths skills are just a few of the ways schools, children’s centres, and early years settings encourage families to learn together.
A whole-school outing to the Tower of London by Alice Model Nursery School was repeated this year because of its impact on the children and their families. By Fran Paffard
KIDS, the disabled children's charity, has received an 'outstanding' from Ofsted for the creche and out-of-school club it runs at Wylde Green Centre in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.
Investment in health service childcare is giving nursery chains opportunities to expand, says Annette Rawstrone Two casualties of the old NHS are ironically now assisting hospitals in their quest to...
The speech and language charity I CAN is changing its name to reach more of the almost one in five children in the UK who have challenges with talking and understanding words.
Children's Trusts, primary care trusts (PCTs) and local authorities are being urged to employ one full-time school nurse for every secondary school and its cluster of primary schools. The...
The plight of families with disabled children and ethnic minorities trying to find suitable childcare was highlighted at the Daycare Trust's annual conference in London last week. During the...
Childcare staff and families marched through Glasgow city centre on Saturday calling for government intervention after the Scottish voluntary organisation One Plus went into liquidation last week,...
The Government is to be congratulated on its commitment to families with young children. It has commissioned three excellent reports and seems to agree with their findings, says Naomi Eisenstadt.
While the majority of councils claim they have sufficient early years places, less than one in six collect information on whether provision is meeting the needs of local families, reveals new...