Scotland leads the UK in the percentage of hospitals with Baby Friendly accreditation - a worldwide initiative run by UNICEF and the World Health Organisation to promote breastfeeding. Only 10 per...
Let's not risk boring spaces By Bernard Spiegal, principle of Playlink No negligence claims have been lodged against local authorities for inducing boredom in children, limiting their imaginations, or...
The Early Years National Training Organisation hopes to devise national occupational standards for carers working with children of asylum seekers and refugees to be included among the standards for...
As this issue of Nursery World goes to press, we’re still waiting to hear who will be taking on ministerial responsibilities for early years and childcare at the Department for Education.
Everyone agrees that children deserve the best possible start in life, and that our nursery provision should reflect the critical importance of the early years in shaping young lives. Yet it's a sad...
Letter of the week wins 30 worth of children's books I was shocked and offended by Julian Grenier's 'Food for thought' article (Insight, 7 April). Jamie Oliver's campaign is flawed, you say?
Children's snacks made from fruit powders could be a new way of including nutrients in a child's diet, say scientists at Manchester Metropolitan University.
I note the plethora of letters, and the column by Alan Bentley ('To the point', 19 July), all bemoaning the failings of the Nursery Education Grant.
The Red House Children's Book Award is the only major award voted entirely for by children. This year 25,000 children across the UK took part in the judging through book groups organised by the...
* Jennifer Brice, 42, was a full-time mother of five until she embarked on a DCE course at Barnet College, north London, almost two years ago. She hopes it will provide a route back into employment,...