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More than 60 family and children’s charities, advice organisations, academics, unions and faith leaders have written to the Chancellor calling for a £10 per child weekly uplift in child benefit to...
Brendan Clarke-Smith has been made the new children and families minister, with his brief including early years and childcare.
Regulations for dealing with illness, accidents and medicines at nursery are outlined by Laura Henry About this series
A new feature on the NHS Food Scanner App has been launched to show families how to make healthier food and drink swaps in a bid to tackle childhood obesity.
New analysis shows the extent to which families will miss out of the Government's plans to extend childcare support for working families, both through the new Tax-free Childcare scheme and extra...
A welter of statistics and reports has been released in the past week or so despite the fact that it is summer holiday season. Perhaps government and other bodies are hoping that no one will be...
Just because someone has Doctor or Professor in front of their name, it doesn't necessarily mean they have all the answers. Jennie Lindon offers some healthy scepticism. A spate of recent court cases...
A Sure Start-funded project in Edinburgh is getting children off to the right start at nursery by encouraging parents' involvement in their education. Two 'parent workers' attached to three nursery...
There's no doubt that falling occupancy levels and escalating competition from Government-funded children's centres have put a damper on expansion among the UK's largest private nursery groups (see...
The new national occupational standards for classroom assistants (see News, page 4) are welcome for several reasons. The standards, and the forthcoming NVQs/SVQs that will follow, will be a big step...