1. Does your setting offer to visit children at home before they start with you? 2. Do you offer a range of opportunities for younger children and families to stay and play?
Much like the weather at the moment, the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement was damp and disappointing for those involved in education, childcare and the welfare of families and young children.
Three-year-olds and their families gain positive benefits from living in areas with a Sure Start local programme, the latest findings from the National Evaluation of Sure Start have shown.
CACHE has been named as an awarding body for the new specialist diploma in Society, Health and Development, to be offered at Levels 1, 2 and 3 from September 2008. The diploma is one of 14 introduced...
Childcare minister Sam Gyimah exclusively unveils the Government's new consultation on the future of children's centres.
Children from better-off families make small gains in their educational performance in free schools in Sweden - the model for the UK's coalition Government policy - but the effect does not last and...
Apples are easy to grow, have many health benefits and are a versatile cooking ingredient, says Mary Llewellin, who also makes a few suggestions on what to do with them
A new scheme in Bradford aims to develop safer and healthier places for children under four to play and walk, and increase access to green spaces.
Children's centres will be paid according to the take-up of free nursery education among disadvantaged two and three-year-olds, in plans unveiled by children's minister Sarah Teather.