In Bishop's House Early Years Centre (Kennington, London) the team have considered carefully how to help babies and very young children to feel secure. Janice Smith (centre manager) and Lorraine Slade...
More than 500 childcarers have joined the Transport and General Workers' Union in Scotland over the past two years, with some new members securing pay rises of as much as 13 per cent as a result. The...
Pre-school children in Wigtownshire, south-west Scotland, are being given a head start in reading and literacy skills through access to a library of story bags. Early Literacy Kids (ELK), which...
Misguided leadership has resulted in a 'decade of missed opportunities of tragic proportions' for progress for children, claims the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). In its report, The State of...
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority is doing a survey to find out how practitioners are getting on in their first year implementing the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Prospective childminders in Wales are to receive a start-up grant from 1 April 2002. Jane Hutt, minister for children, said the Welsh Assembly will consult on how much the grant should be and added...
Child protection services are excluding many fathers and stepfathers from having a say about their children's future, delegates at a conference in London were told last week. The conference, 'My Dad,...
Parents of disabled children have rated local authority services as 'above average' in the first-ever national survey of parents' views on services for disabled children.