New free leaflets from Early Education will help carers of under-fives understand child development and play an active part in children's learning. Written by child psychologist Jennie Lindon, the...
Mandy Coleman helps her one-year-old son Spencer Morrison stay aboard Treacle, one of two 30-year-old rocking horses at Aberdeen Children's Hospital, which opened in January. The rocking horses were...
A childminder has been awarded 350 compensation for loss of earnings by the Local Government Ombudsman. The award was made following a complaint from the childminder that Barnet council in north...
A group of leading family charities have called for more support for teen fathers to enable them to play a bigger part in their children's lives.
Position: Founder of fruit bouquet business Tooty Fruity, and qualified nursery teacher
The Department for Education has launched two schemes to help close the ‘word gap' that exists between disadvantaged children and their peers at the age of five.
Teachers in Scotland can access information and resources about health and well-being at school through a website set up by the Scottish Executive's Scottish Health Promoting Schools Unit. The Unit's...
London's first full-time forest nursery has won a Queen’s Award for Innovation.
New figures show the Trussell Trust, the UK's biggest operator of food banks, provided record levels of emergency food supplies last year, driven by benefits not covering the costs of essentials.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has called for vitamin D supplements to be made more widely available to children.