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As a childminder who has been registered and working for the past nine years, I feel very strongly that we have to keep a sense of proportion about the number of 'bad' childminders working at the...
The death of a ten-month-old girl who choked on a piece of apple at a nursery was judged accidental last week. Georgia Hollick died in hospital on 19 April of asphyxiation after choking on the apple...
Early years organisations have welcomed the Government's 'home childcarer' proposals but criticised the initiative for excluding nannies.
Last week marked the beginning of party conference season. All the parties know that they have to speak to and for women to stand a chance of winning in 2015. This means that childcare will...
Early years organisations have praised Prime Minister Gordon Brown for creating the new Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Nurseries and other businesses in Northern Ireland have been warned not to be taken in by a mailshot from a body calling itself the 'Health and Safety Enforcement Agency'. The Department of...
Child health assessment at school entry (CHASE) project: evaluation in 10 London primary schools The CHASE questionnaire was developed to capture the multiple dimensions of the health of children in...
The Budget packed a bigger punch than many think for the early years.
A new qualification is raising professional profiles for hospital play specialists. Mary Evans reports Although the first staff employed to play with child patients began working nearly 50 years ago,...
Is the end in sight for the recent boom in growth of nursery provision? A survey released last week, showing that capacity is significantly outstripping demand in private day nurseries, would seem to...