Childcare providers have been invited by the Inland Revenue to suggest ways to improve the childcare tax credit element of its new employment tax credit, which is to replace the Working Families Tax...
Two family support centres in Wiltshire have had their budgets slashed in half following a borough council's cost-cutting measures. On 1 April the Walcot Family Centre and the Welcome Family Centre in...
The EYFS review by Dame Clare Tickell has finally been unveiled, with its 40-plus recommendations seeking to support learning through play and build on the current framework's principles and themes.
Child Safety Week, an annual initiative organised by the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT), is taking place between 23 and 29 June, on the theme of 'One moment changes everything'. The message of...
Early years workers could find themselves key players in a new child protection campaign, as Karen Faux reports A ventriloquist's dummy provides the chilling image for a new TV commercial designed to...
Labour's plans for a further massive expansion of early years provision seem to be putting quantity before quality - again. Simon Vevers hears what leading figures in the sector think the effects...
Don't miss out on the opportunity to point out environmental print to children. It surrounds their every waking moment, says <B>Louise Dryden</B>
Parents and carers of other family members are uniting to demand the support they need to keep going, and to meet the Government's goals for working. <B>Simon Vevers</B> reports
<P> Parents often need to be reassured that nursery staff will look after their children as carefully as they do, says <B> Mary Evans </B> </P>
Practitioners will need to appreciate the rapid developmental changes in children who are consolidating all they have experienced so far Being two is exciting, scary, interesting, confusing,...