The Suzy Lamplugh Trust sells its own simple-to-use Personal Shriek Alarm which gives off an ear-piercing, 138 decibel shriek. It comes complete with a Guide to Safer Living and costs 7.50 plus p&p....
If parents can't get to childcare, it's great to bring the childare to them, as some successful providers are finding. Jackie Cosh reports For many mothers in remote Aberdeenshire villages such as...
This article links to elements C5.3 and C5.5 of the NVQ 3 in Early Years Childcare and Education. Evidence collector: If you are a student, you may wish to carry out the following activity. Remember...
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,...
Is your setting fulfilling its commitments to parents? Use another in our series of checklists by Laura Henry About this series
Movement promotes neurological development but our society smiles upon 'sitting still'. An extract from Hopping Home Backwards describes one way round the problem The fact that very few early years...
<P>Childcarers should see fears from a child's perpective in order to undersand and dispel them, writes John Bolton </P>
Officers Tom and Steve from Dorset Police told the children at Alderholt Sunbeams how they keep people safe.
Concerns about wide variations in the quality of candidates getting NVQs could increase with new funding methods, as Mary Evans reports National Vocational Qualifications were designed to equip the...
This day course for nursery staff and nannies looks at working with children aged from nought to three.Merton House, 23 Hope Terrace, Edinburgh EH9. 9.30am to 3pm. Cost 50,includes snack lunch and...