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Cedric is an endearing little character who helps children learn to count up to ten. He measures 44cm long and each segment of his body bears an embroidered number. These segments can be pulled apart...
More than a quarter (27 per cent) of UK schools - including nursery, primary, secondary and sixth forms - are in areas above World Health Organisation (WHO) air pollution limits, research launched...
The Scottish Executive has extended to 28 February the time allowed for responses to a consultation on how best to improve children's dental health. Published in September, the consultation points out...
Chancellor Gordon Brown's pre-Budget report extending child benefit to mothers-to-be from week 29 of their pregnancy will help low-income working families who do not qualify for the Sure Start...
Child psychologist Jennie Lindon answers your letters about child behaviour Q. We have had two bereavements in quick succession within families who attend our nursery. One boy was very distressed when...
Two nursery nurses who were suspended from a Nottingham Kinderquest nursery after allegedly exposing children to anti-nail-biting solution have been charged with child cruelty. Sara Brown and Nichola...
With regard to the current Criminal Records Bureau fiasco and its more than doubling of Disclosure check fees (News, 12 June), there is general acceptance now that anyone working in childcare in...
Childcare settings need to know about the risks of this potentially dangerous infection and how to prevent it, says Annette Rawstrone Recent outbreaks of the deadly bug E. coli 0157 in day nurseries...
(Photograph) - Term-time support workers demonstrated outside Huddersfield Town Hall in West Yorkshire last week to lobby their employers for holiday pay. The Kirklees branch of public service union...
In response to 'Anger over council terms' (News, 22 June), I should like to add my thoughts, which include 'frustration' and 'fatigue'. Hertfordshire, our local authority, currently passes on 8 per...