<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>
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...
Innovative and highly useful new early years products that come with built-in child appeal are previewed by Ruth Thomson.
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
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
I was incensed to read an advertisement in my local newspaper from a school looking for a 'qualified and skilled classroom assistant', who is 'NNEB/BTec qualified'. This is a blatant attempt at cheap...
The labelling of food products that may contain nuts is 'inconsistent and often confusing', according to the Food Standards Agency. The warning followed publication of a report commissioned by the...
The new school year has begun in a hailstorm of reports, but will their findings result in any significant changes ?
Representatives of the early years sector came together at a conference in London last week to discuss the best way forward following the closure of the Early Years National Training Organisation...
Calls for England to have an independent children's commissioner have been renewed in the wake of the appointment of Margaret Hodge as its first minister for children. The calls were made this week by...