'Junior education minister Cathy Ashton has had to ask friends to look after her children during Labour conference after failing to find a childminder. She will only have herself to blame if the...
'It's not just that advertisements make him choose a particular brand - they convince him he is hungry as well' Hayley Brown, a hotel manager from Ashford in Kent, on the effect of television...
'"If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys." No, you don't actually; when you pay peanuts, you get workers of almost incomprehendable dedication and fortitude who stick at their immeasurably vital and...
Childminders across Northern Ireland have been busy creating a range of 'learning bags' for children living in four European countries. The Smiley Faces project, launched by the Northern Ireland...
The guidance to the national standards for daycare in England has now been published by Ofsted and will be closely scrutinised by the early years sector to see how the details stack up. One area sure...
'This is just a few actors with big rubber heads being outperformed by a yellow plastic digger called Scoop and a steamroller called Roley. They say you should never act with children and animals, but...
'We tend to devalue children's ability to form opinions, but they form quite sophisticated ideas of consequences. The most important thing is to give children space to talk.' Peter Hodgkinson from the...
'Gone are the days when the school playground was seen as an area of fun and relaxation for children. Now we recognise it is also a place where pupils develop social skills, make friends, resolve...
'The most profound thing facing the new education minister isn't national tests or attainment levels or the jiggery pokery of justifying the PFI involvement in schools; it's the crisis caused by...
'What is remarkable is the extent of support for nursery nurses across whole communities, including parents. In not resolving this dispute, elected members in COSLA are becoming increasingly isolated...