The state of children's television and other children's media is under review by Ofcom, the regulator for the UK communications industries. Its report due in the summer will also look at the role of...
Ahead of the next general election, pledges will likely be made about childcare, but will they have any substance?
'I see children of five and younger coming into hospital to have teeth removed under general anaesthetic. In a so-called civilised country in the 21st century, that's unacceptable.' Professor Liz Kay,...
Debate about the role of ICT in the early years is surely some of the most polarised around, as our head-to-head between Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith and Dr Richard House shows (see pages...
<P> Handling a possible case of child abuse in your setting will call for the utmost sensitivity. NSPCC education adviser Alison O'Brien offers professional guidance </P>
Many young children are spending their days being shuttled from one form of care and education to another. Anne Wiltsher looks at moves to smooth the joins
At this time of year all childcare students who are about to qualify and would like to be live-in nannies should be seriously looking for jobs. How easy it is to find work may depend on where you...
The charity Shelter has launched an emergency appeal to help more than 100,000 children who will be waking up homeless this Christmas.
Choosing toys for the rising threes should take account of their language acquisition and development of imaginative role play. Jenny Benjamin offers some pointers As we have seen from the earlier...
You've had storysacks - now try poetry pockets that will help the children under age three to develop the seeds of literacy. Alice Sharp explains how