* At any one time local authorities in England look after 58,000 children. * About 20 per cent of children in local authority care - over 10,000 - are four years old or younger.
Children's reading and memory could be impared by exposure to high levels of aircraft noise, says new research published in The Lancet.
Scotland is moving towards an integrated care and education inspection system. Ruth Thomson outlines the new duties
Maternal and grandmaternal smoking patterns are associated with early childhood asthma This US study showed that, relative to children of never-smoking mothers, children whose mothers smoked...
A Dorset nursery has been closed and its registration suspended by Ofsted following an allegation of sexual assault against a child.
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My congratulations to Nursery World on its 85th anniversary. Nursery World is so good that we bought it twice! Michael Heseltine looks back at Nursery World's history with Haymarket
As Nursery World went to press for our last issue, I wrote that we were still waiting to hear who would be the minister for childcare and early years.