31 March 2004
Early years organisations across Scotland have welcomed the setting of the qualifications criteria for the registration of early education and childcare workers, announced last week by the Scottish Social Services...
31 March 2004
How can early years practitioners treat boys and girls equally, yet focus on their different needs and strengths to foster learning? Helen Bilton considers the challenges
31 March 2004
Day nurseries in Northern Ireland fear that unsuitable people could get jobs working with children despite new child protection legislation.
31 March 2004
Unions representing nursery nurses and other school support staff have urged the Government to think again and include them in its latest scheme to help key public sector workers get...
31 March 2004
Childminders' services can get overlooked in a sea of nurseries. Karen Faux meets a childminder who has set up a service which helps parents find their perfect match
31 March 2004
In the first of a series on nurturing young children's communication skills, Opal Dunn considers how they acquire language and the vital role played by caring adults
31 March 2004
Prevention and treatment for a common condition among younger children is outlined by doctors from Great Ormond Street Hospital in our A to Z of health
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...
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...
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...
