How are nurseries apparently staying ahead of schools in the drive to provide healthier food for children? <B>Karen Faux</B> reports
Further to Ruth Thomson's feature on the Neighbourhood Nurseries scheme ('On track?', 21 February), I am the Foundation Stage co-ordinator in a maintained primary school, serving a deprived area...
The feature 'Flush it out' (7 August) was illustrated by a photograph of children using toilets without doors or curtains. Our own cubicles, though spacious, did not have doors or curtains up for 12...
Cases of measles in England and Wales last year rose by more than 30 per cent to the highest level since records began in 1995. The Health Protection Agency recorded 971 cases of measles in 2007,...
'I have watched many children become burned out by too much pressure, too much socialisation and formal setting too early on... The way forward is for parents to be fully informed of what kind of...
'In my son's Year One class there is a child who has already read The Lord of the Rings. We went to a dinner party and the parents were boasting about it. Parents can be very competitive.' Parent of...
'Tony Blair could have done a Lloyd George. He could have said: we are expanding the welfare state and recognising a state responsibility for all children out of school hours from the age of three....
'What we didn't anticipate when we made Teletubbies was the response we got from very small children. There is no tradition of allowing little ones to be reflected back and see themselves on the...
'If I look at my childminder, who has an average childminding span of seven years, I may have a teacher of the future, I may have a nursery manager, I may have an engineer. What we have got to offer...
'The public is prepared for law reform because they know it will help us all protect children more effectively and is not an attack on parents. Law reform would be primarily educative, not punitive.'...