ContactPoint should be scrapped and the savings used to provide additional support for front-line social workers, under proposals by the Liberal Democrats to be debated at their party conference in...
England's early years spend is below par, explain Carey Oppenheim, early childhood lead, and Dr Claire Sewell, communications manager, at the Nuffield Foundation
A new report calls for a food manifesto for the under-fives to address the challenge of childhood obesity and malnutrition.
British cities are 'scarred' by child poverty, said the Joseph Rowntree Foundation following its research showing that poverty affects around half the children in some of Britain's biggest cities. The...
Child Safety Week, an annual initiative organised by the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT), is taking place between 23 and 29 June, on the theme of 'One moment changes everything'. The message of...
The mental health and emotional well-being of our youngest children has never been so high on the agenda. Charlotte Goddard asks what this means for training
Representatives of the campaign to save Salford’s five local authority nurseries have been invited to meet children and families minister Nadhim Zahawi today (Wednesday 16 May).?
'Doctor, my child has a rash! He's well in himself, but I have no idea what it is. Should I keep him away from nursery?'
We know many people who work in nurseries experience physical problems: nearly 90 per cent of you reported experiencing back pain in a 2011 survey.
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.