Schools need to do more to attract the poorest children to take up two-year-old places and to work with early years providers in their area, Sir Michael Wilshaw has said.
Children are being served up too many calories and excessive fat and not enough of the necessary fibre content and essential vitamins in children's meals on the menu at restaurants, cafes and leisure...
There is 'a wave of interest in early language', says Jean Gross, chair of Bercow: Ten Years On.
By Daniela Reale, head of policy and campaigns, Daycare Trust The year prior to the election has been a crucial time for children and for families. For the first time, all political parties recognise...
Labour's new saving and investment plan for children was officially launched last week by Chancellor Gordon Brown. Over the next few months, Britain's two million children born on or after 1 September...
Children across England are being asked for their views about National Health Service (NHS) services they have received. More than 120,000 children and young people and their parents and carers are...
Cherie Blair is calling for a Government strategy towards universal pre-school childcare with the ultimate aim of childcare for all parents, whatever their background and the age of their children.
Further to the news story in last week's Nursery World about the House of Commons debate on the vetting of childcarers, we would like to make it clear that the debate ran out of time before junior...
A new 1.2m children's centre in Bradford, West Yorkshire, is offering affordable childcare, help with language development and the services of health visitors, school nurses and paediatricians, plus...
In our A to Z series on child health, childhood knock-knee is explained by doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital What is knock-knee?