'After the baby boom of the 1950s we've had the baby bust. Europe's real demographic crisis is not longevity but birth rates.' David Willetts, shadow work and pensions secretary, argues that babies...
Day nurseries and other organisations in Northern Ireland that work with children have been given notice of new child protection legislation that is to come into force there this autumn. The...
Training Today contains a wealth of information on all the changes to early years education and childcare qualifications.
'The male primary teacher is an anomaly that causes eyebrows to raise and sets people to wonder how a man could possibly cope with 30 children first thing on a Monday morning.' Toni Davidson on the...
'Only one in ten women born in the 1940s was childless; a quarter of women born in the 1970s have no children by their forties. The hand which rocks the cradle now prefers to just rock.' Yvonne...
'I welcome the commitment to highlighting the need to recruit, train and retain a larger, qualified workforce. This requires a long-term solution to ensure a workforce that is sustainable for...
'My post and the new directorate in the Department for Education and Skills gives us an historic opportunity. I hope I shall be able to use the title of Minister for Children, Young People and...
'At face value, the improvement in SATs is an amazing rise in standards. When you see something like that you have to pause for a minute and say, is it real or not?' Professor Peter Tymms of Durham...
Some food for thought in your professional career Towards a sociology of childhood: thinking from children's lives. By Berry Mayall. (Open University Press, 16.99, 01280 823388).
Ways to guide and monitor early years settings on good practice in healthy eating are outlined by community dietician Amanda Price To help meet targets on childhood obesity, Bromley Primary Care Trust...