5 July 2001
Worsening child poverty rates in Britain cannot be
reversed by the Government unless it underpins its tax and benefit reforms with
a publicly-funded 'resilient, robust system of early years services...
5 July 2001
The Government has been challenged to improve on its
record on the sale of the UK's school playing fields and children's play areas
in its second term of office. The...
5 July 2001
(Photograph) - Brodie Miller found a visitor to Child &
Co's Mongewood Park Nursery School was a fair cop when PC Jonathan Sherwood
returned to his old beat. PC Sherwood...
5 July 2001
Early years workers have an important role to play in
the lives of refugee children from traumatised families.Wendy Wallace reports.
Little Ayak was at home with her mother in southern...
5 July 2001
Mary Garry runs Sighthill Nursery in Glasgow, a
stand-alone maintained nursery school which takes 80 children in both the
morning and afternoon. The nursery takes children from the families of...
5 July 2001
Even very young children can recognise signs and labels
and nurseries can build on this 'real life' reading. Jane Drake suggests ideas
for developing early literacy skills. We may settle...
5 July 2001
Use these ten key points as possible lead-ins for
discussion at a staff meeting or with parents and carers: 1 What experience of
print do children have outside of the...
5 July 2001
Short of ideas for a kids' outing? You can use the net
to find out what's on in your local area, says Jenny Benjamin Somewhere in the
dusty recesses of...
5 July 2001
What does a big (the biggest?) entertainment
corporation do when it wants to suggest quality and a commitment to learning,
without sacrificing kid-appeal? Well, in Disney's case, it seems to...
5 July 2001
Listen in * The importance of consulting with children
- By Peter Moss, professor of early childhood provision at the Thomas Coram
Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London
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