28 June 2001
Children of refugees and asylum seekers should be
recognised in the national care standards, according to a leading Scottish
children's organisation. The Scottish Out-of-School Care Network (SOSCN) has
questioned whether...
28 June 2001
Nursery owners and managers and head teachers will be
able to keep abreast of legal and procedural changes to the regulation of
Scottish early years services with a new publication....
28 June 2001
A programme to promote activity and development in
pre-school children is reminding parents and carers in Fife that they can
collect a free copy of the scheme's second book from...
28 June 2001
Nursery children are discovering the joy of cooking
with a nutritionist who hopes it will become a lifelong habit. Sarah Hope is
being sponsored by Safeway to visit Flora Stevenson...
28 June 2001
The Government should invest in 10,000 children's
centres around the country, says a leading childcare campaigning group. A
report by the Daycare Trust published earlier this week examines the costs...
28 June 2001
Early years settings in Belfast and Suffolk have closed
following separate outbreaks of the E.coli 0157 organism. Two female staff at
the Matt Talbot Nursery School in the New Barnsley...
28 June 2001
(Photograph) - Wheelies were the order of the day as
children from the Hurst Pre-school Playgroup in Sidcup, Kent, raised £400
for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty...
28 June 2001
* Out-of-hours childcare is to benefit from more than
£25m worth of awards announced last week by the New Opportunities Fund
(NOF). Grants totalling nearly £19m will fund 46,725 out-of-school...
28 June 2001
More young children from disadvantaged backgrounds in
Northern Ireland are in pre-school education than ever before, a Department of
Education report on educational participation has found. The report, New
Targeting...
28 June 2001
* A child safety scheme is putting accident awareness
in its place. Placemats produced by Swansea Sure Start and distributed by
Swansea NHS Trust to the families of children when...
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