18 February 2004
A shortage of supply teachers in Glasgow is causing headteachers to put aside management duties in nursery schools across the city, the teaching union the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS)...
18 February 2004
As the Government pledges £200m for developing play facilities for children around the country, will the right thing be done with the money? Simon Vevers canvasses views...
18 February 2004
The Government is looking at extending the child tax credit scheme to enable parents on low incomes to have more than the two-and-a-half hours a day of universal free provision...
18 February 2004
Young children across Ireland are being encouraged to respect each other's differences in a groundbreaking early years initiative.
19 February 2004
The vital need for early years practitioners to know
about child development and to use that knowledge in their day to day practice
with young children is acknowledged in some...
19 February 2004
The Government is looking at extending the child tax
credit scheme to enable parents on low incomes to have more than the
two-and-a-half hours a day of universal free provision...
19 February 2004
(Photograph) - Four-year-old Victoria Murley, whose
parents are both deaf, enjoyed an opportunity to practise her signing with
Sally Thomas, community development adviser for the National Deaf Children's
Society, at...
19 February 2004
'Isn't it time we gave our children time for fun?'
Angela Elliott of Welton le Marsh in Lincolnshire, after being told by a friend
she was withdrawing her three-year-old son...
19 February 2004
There is no legal mechanism in place to check if people
from overseas who come to England and Wales to work with children are suitable
to do so or have...
19 February 2004
Kathleen Marshall has been appointed Scotland's
first-ever commissioner for children and young people. Her nomination was
approved by the Scottish Parliament on 12 February and it is expected that she...
