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Staff-to-child ratios, and more importantly, staff qualifications and in-service training can predict the quality of pre-school childcare settings, a new study has found.
As the summer holidays roll on, it seems appropriate that much of our news coverage this week is devoted to the issue of play.
Children 1st @ Breedon House has been operating nurseries successfully for nearly 20 years.
Leaving a baby to ‘cry it out’ has no adverse effects on child development and attachment, according to new research.
A review of child and family policy developments in the UK has been published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The child and family policy divide: tensions, convergence and rights by Clem Henricson...
This week's national policy seminar held by 4Children examined the childcare gains and challenges in the five years since the report by the Childcare Commission, which set out demands for investment...
In the first of a two-part series on pre-term babies, Anne O’Connor takes a look at new research that sheds a light on the extent to which early birth affects children in later life
A call to abolish the two-child benefit cap, establish a No.10 Poverty Unit and expand free school meals to all families in receipt of universal credit, form part of a ten-point plan for the next...
Just because someone has Doctor or Professor in front of their name, it doesn't necessarily mean they have all the answers. Jennie Lindon offers some healthy scepticism
Politics is responsible for educational failure, says Alan Bentley.