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How should I talk to my baby? Taking turns to make noises is the first step towards having a conversation. Copy your baby's babbling noises, then look at them and wait for a 'reply'. Later on, babies...
The Department for Education (DfE) is consulting with the early years sector and parents on staff:child ratios, in a renewed drive to encourage providers to move to a 1:13 ratio for three- and...
Sure Start's own beginnings perhaps didn't live up to the programme's name, being rather shaky and unclear, but since 1999 the Government's scheme to improve the health and well-being of children in...
The developmental characteristics of four- and five-year-old pre-schoolers' drawing The drawings of 17 children in the USwere analysed at ages four and five. At both ages the most commonly used...
As the nine to five working day becomes ever less common, the need grows for childcare in what used to be called unsocial hours. Evening work, night shifts, weekend work - parents who have little...
A debate in the House of Lords last week flagged up the shortage of speech and language therapists in children's services (see News, page 6). It is not that there are too few people - according to...
Ofsted's decision to publish inspection reports for childminders on the internet, but not to reveal their full addresses, seems to strike a good balance in terms of making information available...
Packed with new, innovative and exiting ideas, the Early Years and Primary Teaching Exhibition at the G-Mex Centre in Manchester is the meeting place for all those involved in nursery and primary...
Most parents find that there are moments in their children's lives that seem particularly special. One of those must be the point when your child turns around and says 'Look, I can write my name now!'