The Daycare Trust has renewed its call for every community to have a children's centre, urging parents and organisations to sign its charter calling for 'a publicly-funded universal expansion of...
We liked the idea of babies getting in a real mess, as shown in the feature 'A fine mess!' (8 February). We tried this activity with our charges in the baby room at the nursery and found it to be most...
I was pleased to read that the overall response to the Transformation Fund (Special Report, 18 May) seems to be positive and that local authorities are actively planning how best to use their...
Articles in the financial pages of the Sunday Times and the Observer newspapers this month and last suggested that parents could save themselves two or three thousand pounds a year by setting their...
What sort of crafts do you like doing at home with the children? Michelle Bowen, a nanny in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, sent in these ideas Peg butterflies
A few of the most common infections transmitted by animals are explained by doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital Zoonoses are diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans. They range...
Childrens salt consumption is rocketing to dangerous levels. <B> Mary Whiting </B> of the Food Commission offers some essential advice
One ICT priority for this term will be to introduce the computer and encourage children to become confident and proficient in using the mouse. Here are two pieces of software that will go a long way...