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Children's health is an area of growing concern for parents and Governments alike, and in Wales we have launched an exercise programme that focuses on young children's posture, movement and...

When Helen McGlashon took a two-week job in Zermatt, Switzerland, as a ski nanny she became hooked. Within two years with ski specialist company Powder Byrne, Helen has progressed from...

Statistics show that in the UK approximately 500 fathers and more than 100 mothers die every year, leaving grief-stricken young children behind them. And there are other bereavements that affect...

The handover to Ofsted's Early Years Directorate, which is taking over the registration and inspection of childcare for the under-eights from 3 September, has worried some practitioners. But they have...

Cuts in funding for childcare students have prompted one provider to focus on management training instead, suggesting that Government policy is having the opposite effect of its stated aim of...

Providers across the early years sector should have in their postbag by now a set of the national care standards that relate to their type of provision, and the accompanying...

The cost of a private day nursery place in Ireland's capital has more than doubled over the past three years. Joan Carmichael, general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade...

Most nursery assistants and other school staff in Northern Ireland on temporary contracts are to be given permanent status from the start of the new term in September. Management of...

(Photograph) - Seven-year-old Jayden Purdue from Katherine's Primary School in Harlow, Essex, demonstrates his gymnastics skills during the London Comedy Festival's children's day at Camden Lock in north London. The...

* Rural communities across Britain are invited to submit bids to a European Community fund which supports small-scale, innovative solutions to problems such as lack of childcare facilities. One area...