15 February 2001
* An Essex University study that found children under
five whose mothers worked did worse academically in later life than those whose
mothers stayed at home is contributing to a...
15 February 2001
* Two leading speech and language charities have teamed
up with a London university to produce a training aid for early years
professionals. The resource, Language and literacy: Learning together,...
15 February 2001
Services for children and adults who live in rural
parts of England are sparse, inaccessible and of poor quality, according to the
people who live there. Their comments are given...
15 February 2001
Preventable injuries are the biggest killer of children
aged one to 14 in all industrialised countries, according to the first league
tables to be compiled on the subject. The data...
15 February 2001
(Photograph) - Children are full of praise for a new
nursery run by Selective Learning in a refurbished church in east London.
Simply called The Nursery and located in St...
15 February 2001
* Services for children and adults living in rural
parts of England are sparse, inaccessible and of poor quality, according to the
people who live there. Their comments are given...
15 February 2001
Access to childcare training will become an
increasingly crucial problem for rural areas if the forthcoming changes in
regulation bring more stringent qualification requirements, Scotland's leading
children's agency has warned....
15 February 2001
The Scottish Executive has underlined its commitment to
providing affordable, high-quality childcare in rural areas. At last week's
conference in Glasgow on rural childcare services, deputy minister for rural
development...
15 February 2001
The first private nursery chains are taking steps into
the new Neighbourhood Nurseries scheme for disadvantaged areas. Anne Wiltsher
reports The 108-place Jigsaw nursery in Portsmouth, one of the pioneer...
15 February 2001
* 900 50-place nurseries are to be set up by 2004 in
the bottom fifth of deprived wards in England and other pockets of extreme
deprivation. These could be in...