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Northern Ireland and England have been ranked among the top ten countries in the world for reading and literacy.
A new training programme intended to equip nursery staff with the necessary skills to help them support families with low basic skills is being tested out in four local authorities in England. The...
How much do you know about young children? Test your knowledge by answering the questions below.By June Thompson, health visitor and medical journalist 1 Babies born prematurely (below 37 weeks...
Literacy for young children today means more than reading and writing alphabet letters, says Opal Dunn in the final part of her series on books for birth to threes.
Simple, fun and adaptable ideas that use a variety of cheap resources to engage and stimulate young children's thinking, by Alice Sharp Food, food, food * Glue a set of six clear magazine photographs...
New standards for the NVQ Playwork Level 2 recognise the challenges that older children need, says Gail Bushell 'Play is what I do when everyone else has stopped telling me what to do.'
The three main political parties have been busy making statements about parenting and work-life balance during and leading up to their annual conferences (see News, pages 5 and 6). A major...
Nearly all of us feel that we watch too much television, and that we should make a bigger effort to do other things. Nearly all of us believe that our children watch too much TV, though we can be only...
The patterns in language, movement and music may not be immediately obvious but learning to recognise them helps children make sense of the world, says Linda Pound.