Income-related out-of-work benefits and tax credits could be replaced by a single payment, under plans revealed by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith.
Supporting fragile families and the practitioners who work with them is vital to ensuring the best interests of children are met, writes Marion Dowling in the final instalment of this two-part...
The Government has included an Education for All Bill in the Queen's Speech, with proposals for under-performing schools to be forcibly converted to academies.
The twentieth Puppet Animation Festival, the UK's oldest and largest performing arts festival for children, got off to a good start when Chameleon Puppets and Kidgloves Puppets visited Liberton...
The ban on smoking in public is helping parents to protect children's health, says Jackie Cosh It is against the law to smoke in an enclosed public place in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and...
You may be used to enthusiastically planning a summer holiday away in the sun, but have you ever thought about packing up your childcare expertise and going abroad to work? Find out about the...
A training cascade has been developed to increase professionals' skills in working with children with speech and language difficulties, as <B> Lisa Morgan </B> explains
Early years practitioners learned to understand and promote the connection between movement and brain development in babies during a special council-funded project described by Ro Lynam, Juliet...
Inspections in nurseries, schools and further education providers will be phased in from the summer term next year, Ofsted announced today.
In the final instalment of this eight-part series, Dr Lala Manners considers how stairs can be used to support strength, balance, co-ordination and agility