* Wellingborough Family Centre, run by children's charity NCH, has received accreditation from the Pre-school Learning Alliance's Aiming for Quality scheme after a rigorous two-year assessment. The...
'Impetus for change comes from the realisation that children appear to be born to fail. Health visitors report that they can tell headteachers and police officers, now, who among the newborns in the...
Three- and four-year-olds in playgroups in Northern Ireland have expressed their views in a study by the Department of Health. The responses to 'Giving Children a Voice' will be used to inform...
Julie Haynes, former nursery manager at Just Learning in Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, has asked Nursery World to point out that she resigned from her job due to ill health and not because of the...
Care standards inspectors in Wales can extend their professional skills with the introduction of a new qualification. The Regulation of Care Services Award, developed jointly by the Care Standards...
'Educational inequality is not a side effect of poverty; they are inextricably linked. Recent Ofsted-funded research has found that educational inequality is growing and we should not be surprised;...
The Sure Start North Moor Children's Centre has opened in Montagu, Newcastle, offering community-based facilities to parents and carers of children under five. Services include play and learning...
A consortium of children's groups and health and consumer campaigners is urging the Government to further curb junk food advertisements aimed at children. The National Children's Bureau has joined...
The cost of conducting criminal record checks on people working with children in England and Wales is set to more than double in price and will take up to a week longer to be processed from next...
Think of safety and efficiency when you put away your D&T tools and materials To make the most of D&T, children need free and easy access to appropriate tools, instruments and materials. They need to...