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Opportunities for delivering the National Childcare Strategy in London through social enterprise solutions are considered in a new survey undertaken by the Daycare Trust on behalf of Social Enterprise London....

'We tend to devalue children's ability to form opinions, but they form quite sophisticated ideas of consequences. The most important thing is to give children space to talk.' Peter Hodgkinson...

(Photograph) - Getting nursery nurses into the lotus position is all part of an innovative scheme for meeting staff needs at Westminster Children's Society. The community nursery group in London...

Any early years setting that strives to involve parents should be rewarded financially, an independent think-tank has told the Government. The call was made by the Social Market Foundation in...

Pre-schools and primary schools across Scotland are set for a standard recording procedure after education minister Jack McConnell last week announced plans to move towards a more uniform system of...

Nursery school staff are being asked to join other professionals in keeping a watchful eye out for children whose parents are drug addicts in a draft national strategy, Getting Our...

Children in Scotland and UNICEF have launched a report that checks up on whether the Scottish Executive and Parliament are taking children's needs and views into account. Children's Rights Audit...

Glasgow City Council's education services committee is considering introducing a new integrated model of education for under-12s at a meeting today (September 27). The committee will discuss a report which...

A new sports programme is aiming to motivate children in Perth towards healthy activities. Catriona McAllister, manager of Bell's Sports Centre in Perth, said, 'Much has recently been written about...

Scottish childminders celebrated the Scottish Executive's move to put their position on smacking children into law at their annual conference. Members of the Scottish Childminding Association at the meeting in...