The ingredients that helped a child to make a confident move up to school are gratefully acknowledged by former early years teacher Phoebe Doyle.
<P> The stressful job of working parents who co-ordinate journeys between childcare settings is being eased by a unique project. Catherine Gaunt reports </P>
Teenagers are finding help to become better parents and jobseekers in a special service. Annette Rawstrone reports.
The proportion of nurseries and childminders judged Good or Outstanding at their latest inspection now stands at 91 per cent - the best ever recorded.
Practitioners can signpost single parents to a new resource, says Simon Bates, development director, Single Parent Action Network.
Sure Start minister Catherine Ashton launched a national multi-million pound advertising campaign this spring to recruit 180,000 childcare workers over the next three years. The campaign particularly...
Far from being something to avoid for busy parents, cooking with children is a great way to spend time together, explains Penny Tassoni
'Making Choices' is designed to help people decide what childcare job is right for them. Linda Prudence went along and discovered playwork, says Anne Wiltsher Linda Prudence, now 36, who lives on the...