Childcare professionals have been invited to contribute their views on the future of adoption and fostering legislation. The Scottish Executive paper Choices for Children in Fostering and Adoption...
All four-year-olds will be able to start school once they turn four, under plans put out for consultation on Monday - just days after the Cambridge Review called for a delay to the start of formal...
The child protection system in Scotland will be replaced if it continues to fail children who are at risk of abuse, First Minister Jack McConnell warned last week. He was addressing a meeting in...
Specialised children's health services in Wales are set to benefit from an extra 1m from the Welsh Assembly. Health minister Jane Hutt said a review, which is subject to consultation with health...
I was pleased to read the positive comments in Denni Morrison's review of my BTec National Early Years book, and delighted that she considers it will be an invaluable course textbook (Professional...
The DfES is seeking views on how best to use the Pounds 25m allocated to the new Parenting Fund that was announced as part of the 2002 Spending Review. The Parenting Fund: Proposals for consultation,...
The autumn term has started, so get back to the books! Childcare expert and former nanny Tracy Hogg has followed up her hit first book with an equally useful guide, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer for...
Nursery nurse members of the public service union Unison in Scotland have gathered 20,000 signatures - double their own number - in support of a petition calling on the Scottish Executive to set up a...
Teachers in England and Wales will get pay rises based on performance rather than the length of service, after the Government accepted today all of the proposals in a report by the School Teachers'...
Ten years after his landmark review on health inequalities in England, Professor Sir Michael Marmot’s update reveals a growing gap in health between the North and South, with life expectancy failing...