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The debate around whether or not parents should take their children to the pub misses a wider issue about how we involve them in our world
Ten years after the Marmot Review on health inequality and the Government is still ignoring evidence that investing early is best, says Natalie Perera
Times may be tough, but we need to demonstrate resilience to children says Michael Pettavel
Proposals for childcare vouchers may not offer immediate relief but their benefits will be felt in the long term says Susan McGhee, commercial director of Bertram Nursery Group
The Royal baby may be in line for succession as monarch of the whole UK, but devolution seems to be increasingly afoot in terms of policies on early years.
If new practitioners are trained in a new qualification that doesn't even mention play, will they be the informed professionals that children deserve?
Dr Katherine Runswick-Cole is a senior research fellow in disability studies and psychology at the Research Institute for Health and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Support staff in schools have for years been treated as the poor relations in the education system, with low and unequal pay, often only in term-time, bad working conditions and few training...
Ignoring the importance of the early years creates a vicious circle where children are always the losers, says trainer Ann Vincent