Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell says the current treatment of travellers is bad news for children The road to hell is, we know, paved with good intentions. This millennium began with multiple...
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell says children should not be punished in order to control their parents Something about the Children Act principle of 'the best interests of the child' eludes this...
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell is surprised at how childcare was handled as an election issue A funny thing happened on the way to the polls. For the first time in history, childcare was an...
Awar of words broke out last week between two unions over the Government's workload agreement for schools in England. The row between the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and Unison, which represents...
The Government is to review the meaning of childcare for 'reward' in the Childcare Act 2006 following Ofsted's ban on two working mothers from taking turns to look after each other's children.
Low-income families struggle to afford school meals and often cannot provide healthy packed lunches because they do not have a car and are restricted to shopping in local convenience stores, says a...
A new report recommends the Government’s promised early language interventions reach nursery age children.
Mark Smith, co-founder of Green Bottoms, a company that specialises in providing eco-friendly nappies and climate-friendly initiatives to nurseries and early years providers
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell thanks a Select Committee for its incisive evaluation of EveryChild Matters The children's agenda has just harvested one of the most comprehensive and candid...
Our monthly series of parent's guides has had a great response, and we hope that you will enjoy the latest one, published this week. In 'What's important' (pages 14-15), Jennie Lindon looks at the...