'Boys will be boys' translates into a need for lots of space - and preferably outside space. Gail Bushell offers plenty of good games to amuse the chaps As a playwork tutor, I am constantly asked for...
All about... working with parents Practitioners can help parents of under-threes gain an understanding of their children's early development
ContactPoint should be scrapped and the savings used to provide additional support for front-line social workers, under proposals by the Liberal Democrats to be debated at their party conference in...
Primary school children will be taught about evolution for the first time as part of the new primary curriculum, the Government confirmed last week as more details of what it will cover were revealed.
Up to 80m will be available to fund full and part-time schooling and free full-time early years places for four-year-olds, in plans for parents of summer-born children to have greater flexibility over...
The Baby Einstein company is offering refunds to US customers who have purchased one of its DVDs since June 2004, following a bitter dispute with a campaign group over the merits of such 'educational'...
The Scottish government should provide financial support to nurseries as they move to employing managers with a level 9 degree qualification, the National Day Nurseries Association has recommended,...
A scheme that allows parents to check whether people who have contact with their children are convicted sex offenders is to be rolled out across England and Wales by March 2011.
A nursery where a baby choked to death on a piece of apple has received an inadequate rating by Ofsted for the second time in just over a year.
Lone parents of children aged seven or over will be expected to look for work and those with younger children to take part in training, under welfare plans set out by the Government yesterday (21...