issue of Nursery World's supplement Nursery Chains has been moved to 18 September.
The University of East Anglia and the National Children's Bureau have been appointed to carry out the independent evaluation of national children's trusts. The final report is due to be published in...
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...
Training Today contains a wealth of information on all the changes to early years education and childcare qualifications.
As more children are absorbed into school nurseries and reception classes, nurseries are focusing on younger age groups, some taking infants as young as six weeks old. What is it like to actually work...
* International links are valuable because they help practitioners to reflect on their own values, assumptions and ways of looking at children. This point is vividly made by a Swedish practitioner,...
The head of a private school has been fined 20,000 for breaching health and safety laws following the death of a three-year-old boy in the school playground.
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).
'Everyone is becoming neurotic about education. I have watched this grow out of the league tables. We see exam results used to measure political success.' Judith Gillespie, Scottish Parent Teacher...
'Children, though they may still be wanted by so many, are suddenly out of their price range' Cristina Odone, on a survey that calculated that it costs parents 164,000 to bring up a child, the...