Children Bill unveils reforms
10 March 2004
The Children Bill unveiled by the Government last week is 'the legislative spine for much wider reform to achieve better outcomes for children', according to children's minister Margaret Hodge.
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Feeling blue?
10 March 2004
Early years practitioners are using colour as a vehicle for children to understand and express feelings that they may find difficult to communicate, says Jackie Cosh
Keep it clean
10 March 2004
Brush up your policy on health and hygiene and share it with parents to reduce illnesses among the children, advises Mary Evans
'Light touch' scheme extends tax credits
25 March 2004
Parents employing nannies may be able to claim some
financial help with their childcare costs from the Government under a new
'light-touch' scheme to be launched next year. A Treasury...
Ten-month-old Caitlin Elms and 101-year-old Winifred Smith
25 March 2004
(Photograph) - Only a century separated ten-month-old
Caitlin Elms and 101-year-old Winifred Smith when they met at the opening of
the Nunu day nursery in Wigan. Born on 1 July...
Action call to meet child poverty goal
25 March 2004
Five years after its pledge to end child poverty in the
UK, the Government has been praised for 'demonstrable improvements' with a
warning that more policy efforts and greater redistribution...
A national minimum wage
25 March 2004
A national minimum wage of £3 an hour is to be
introduced for from October for 16-and 17-year-olds, following recommendations
from the Low Pay Commission. Wages for 18-to 21-year-olds will...
Children in five London boroughs
25 March 2004
Children in five London boroughs can enjoy free
swimming this Easter, thanks to the Kids Swim Free scheme in Newham, Waltham
Forest, Tower Hamlets, Greenwich and Hackney, giving them free...
The winner of the Community Playthings Multi-tables competition
25 March 2004
The winner of the Community Playthings Multi-tables
competition held at the South West Regional Exhibition and Conference in
Torquay in January is Victoria King, deputy head of the Rees Pre-school...
Quote of the week
25 March 2004
'Only one in ten women born in the 1940s was childless;
a quarter of women born in the 1970s have no children by their forties. The
hand which rocks the...
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