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 NHS spends less on services aimed at very young children than those for any other age group, according to a new report.
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...
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...
Our news item about the nanny filmed abusing children on a surveillance camera in last month's issue caught the eye of E Cruickshank of Bromley, Kent. She writes, 'If I found out that the family I...
Mothers in a parent and baby group in Wandsworth, London, have been coming immaculately dressed for the children's weekly fitness and music class since Take That star and local resident Mark Owen...