A cross-party committee of MPs has pleaded for Sure Start to be given more time to achieve its goals. Will it get it? Laura Marcus reports.
* An 18-year-old nursery nurse who was born profoundly deaf and partially blind has been named as a regional heat winner in the National Apprenticeship Awards 2006. Donna Trezona works in the...
The many voices in the early years sector raised against enforcing formal phonics instruction for children younger than five appear to have been ignored. Jim Rose's review, which contains much good...
Early intervention strategies to help dyslexic children will be included in a major independent review of primary education.
Solutions to child poverty are explored in The Interim Report of the Fabian Commission on Life Chances and Child Poverty , published last week. The report includes experiences and views of real...
April Jones, director of Computer Kids, surfs for pictures Part of the excitement of going on holiday is the idea of somewhere new and different. But what does our holiday destination look like? Are...
Behaviourally disturbed children are increasingly subjected to a quick fix of drugs. By Ruth Thomson
The ban on pre-employment health questionnaires came into effect in October 2010 with the introduction of the Equality Act. Jacqui Mann, managing director of HR4 Nurseries (www.hr4nurseries.co.uk),...
I was concerned at seeing that 72 per cent of respondents to the QCA consultation were happy with the proposal to alter the Early Learning Goal linking letters to sounds (News, 26 October). I can only...
Nannies and parents may have scarcely believed their ears when Chancellor Gordon Brown, delivering this month's Budget, said, 'Support for childcare costs should include help with approved childcare...