Touch is as essential to child development as nutrition, a report published as the UK emerges from national lockdown has found.
In Barrow in Furness, for example, Sure Start has set up a 'Chatterbox' scheme to help parents communicate with their children to prevent language delay. Health visitors and playgroups refer children...
Persistent poverty has a greater effect on children's cognitive development than family instability, according to a new study.
The Government has rejected MPs' recommendation to carry out an independent review of funding and affordability of childcare
4Children is calling for the transformation of Sure Start children’s centres into extended ‘Children and Family Hubs'.
Hospitals are to be prevented by changes in the law from removing tissue and organs from the bodies of dead children without their parents' consent. The change was one of 17 recommendations made by...
Lambeth Council has approved the closure of five of its children’s centres, while those in other parts of the country are also under threat.
Can the increasingly dominant nursery groups meet all families’ needs, and those of nursery staff, while remaining profitable?
With early years settings and schools expected to reopen to more children from 1 June, the sector is split between those who say they are ready and those who are worried that they cannot guarantee the...
<P> We know that children need plenty of fruits - but why, and how can nurseries best provide this? Mary Whiting from the Food Commission offers some answers </P>