21 June 2001
A week and a half after the general election, after all
other main areas seemingly had been parcelled out, the new Department for
Education and Skills was finally able to...
21 June 2001
(Photograph) - Actor Stephen Mangan, perhaps best known
as Adrian Mole in the BBC series 'The Cappuccino Years', visited the Speech,
Language and Hearing Centre at Christopher Place in London...
21 June 2001
Childcarers will be singled out for praise at a
star-studded gala dinner at the Savoy in London next week. The Excellence in
Childcare Awards, run by the Kids' Clubs Network...
21 June 2001
The new minister in charge of early years taking over
from Margaret Hodge is Stephen Timms, the Department for Education and Skills
confirmed on Monday. Mr Timms is the school...
21 June 2001
A contract to manage a holiday playscheme for the House
of Commons has been awarded to Kinderquest. The nursery chain, which manages 45
workplace nurseries and 20 holiday playschemes around...
21 June 2001
'Child A's parents abhor physical chastisement, but
Child A's minder is allowed to smack Child B. Child A learns it is acceptable
to hit babies when his own parents are...
21 June 2001
Scotland's proposals for the future regulation of
daycare are likely to create significant differences between acceptable
practice for childminders north and south of the border by ruling that all
children...
21 June 2001
Primary schools should do more to identify and support
children at risk of developing mental health problems, says a leading mental
health charity. A report by the Mental Health Foundation,...
21 June 2001
(Photograph) - Three-year-old twins Sophie and Joanne
Bortwick got down to earth at the annual Young Pavement Artists Competition,
which this year took the theme 'mountains and moors'. Now in...
21 June 2001
Stirling University has taken on the task of training
Scotland's registration and inspection officers to implement the new national
standards for daycare which will come into effect from April 2002....