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Local authorities have been invited to bid to become pathfinders for the Government's 225m play investment programme, a part of the Children's Plan.
Gaps in data available to local authorities about children from birth to five could make it difficult for children's services to target early intervention strategies effectively, a survey of...
First aid training providers are concerned that the sector is being misled by local authorities into believing that they can only access paediatric first aid training which is approved by their own...
I totally agree with Professor Pat Broadhead that children should have more time to enjoy play-based learning ('"Tests deny children play-based learning"', News, 8 January). After all, when we adults...
The likes of Twitter and Facebook are here to stay and the challenge now is how best to use them. Katy Morton hears how some enterprising nurseries are maximising their potential.
Disabled children at a school in Lanark, Scotland, are enjoying a new sensory room with the help of the Bright Horizons nursery chain and Kwik-Fit Insurance.
One of Scotland’s largest councils has admitted that fulfilling the Scottish Government’s 1,140 hour childcare offer for three- and four-year-olds will pose a ‘significant challenge’.
* At any one time local authorities in England look after 58,000 children. * About 20 per cent of children in local authority care - over 10,000 - are four years old or younger.