16 August 2001
The six shortlisted titles hoping to win this year's
Sainsbury's Baby Book Award have been announced. They are Baby's Very First
Book - Farm by Jo Lodge, Baby Faces by...
16 August 2001
Salford Early Years Development and Childcare
Partnership (EYDCP) is launching a Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative which
aims to create an extra 323 childcare places in disadvantaged areas of the city
by...
16 August 2001
Bookstart is not only boosting awareness of the
importance of reading to babies but encouraging those who already do so to read
even more, according to a report from the...
16 August 2001
Draft Department of Health guidance has been published
to help protect children who have illnesses induced or fabricated by their
parents or carers. Health minister Jacqui Smith said, 'We need...
16 August 2001
The winning designs of three Neighbourhood Nur-series
are to be used as a benchmark for similar future projects across England.
Winning designs for sites in Bexley, Bury and Sheffield have...
16 August 2001
There are only 300 out-of-school clubs in the UK
providing activities and care for 11-to 14-year-olds, equivalent to one place
for every 250 children in this age group, according to...
16 August 2001
The new national standards for the regulation and
inspection of childcare are meant to make a level playing field of a locally
bumpy area. We asked childcare provider organisations how...
16 August 2001
The new Early Years Directorate will ask for parents'
views about the service when inspecting childcare providers. Alison Mercer
explains what else is in store The handover to Ofsted's Early...
16 August 2001
The way private day nurseries, playgroups,
childminders, creches and out-of school clubs are regulated is changing from 3
September. The Early Years Directorate, run by the schools inspectorate,
Ofsted, will...
16 August 2001
A school health programme with its own games and
monthly themes is so popular with the children that they are borrowing from it
spontaneously in the playground Children's health is...
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