18 July 2002
The Northern Ireland Executive has provided Pounds
10.1m from its Children's Fund for 14 new projects working with vulnerable
children and young people, including an early intervention project to help...
18 July 2002
Nursery World wishes to make it clear that while
examples of bad practice in beacon schools were cited by some delegates at a
National Campaign for Nursery Education conference in...
18 July 2002
'Children learn the most in the first three years of
their lives, so to catch them between two-and-a-half and three gets them in
their best learning period.' Victoria Lynne, a...
18 July 2002
Early years organisations have said National Childcare
Month should become an annual event to provide a focus for high-profile
collective campaigning by major organisations in the sector. Rosemary Murphy,
chief...
18 July 2002
(Photograph) - Zupair Khizar did his part for men in
childcare as the only male childminder out of 29 childminders in the London
borough of Hammersmith and Fulham to receive...
18 July 2002
Angry parents and private nursery owners have won a
reprieve on the funding of places for three-year-olds outside local authority
provision after Dundee City Council backtracked on plans to stop...
18 July 2002
The Scottish Executive has announced funding for a
further 14 local authorities to roll out the New Community Schools approach,
bringing the total to 30. New Community Schools bring teachers,...
18 July 2002
A major centre for education research is to be
developed with the merger of the Scottish Council for Research in Education and
the Faculty of Education at the University of...
18 July 2002
Private nurseries in south-west Scotland, some in
far-flung rural areas, have formed their own association to promote their
collective interests and help guide them through the maze of new laws...
18 July 2002
Just over four out of five children in Wales are now in
school before the age of five, figures published by the Welsh Assembly have
revealed. The statistics show a...
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