27 May 2004
Registered childminder training is to be available in
eight additional languages as well as English. The National Childminding
Association has had its training course, Introducing Childminding Practice
(ICP), translated into...
27 May 2004
The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) is one of
ten charities to receive funding from the Department for Work and Pensions to
develop a family sign language curriculum that will...
27 May 2004
Afurther 46 schools across England have been granted
Government fund- ing to become 'extended' schools that provide a full range of
family and community services. Sure Start minister Catherine Ashton,...
27 May 2004
More than seven in ten people support a change in the
law to give children the same protection as adults from being hit in the family
home, a survey for...
27 May 2004
(Photograph) - A colourful work by six-year-old Emily
Atkinson from Kent was among the winners of an art competition for children and
young people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, organised...
27 May 2004
The Government is finally extending its tax credit
system to parents using unregistered childcare. Simon Vevers looks at the pros
and cons Campaigners for national registration for nannies were celebrating...
27 May 2004
Children's behaviour problems can cause strife in
families. Members of the Camden Early Years Intervention Team advise on how to
help them out of it Experience and research has shown...
27 May 2004
It's vital for children's well-being to carry through
the child-centred approach to learning in the reception class to Year 1, says
Sally Featherstone, co-author of Smooth Transitions - Building on...
27 May 2004
This month Claire Warden looks at the learning that can
stem from splashing around in puddles Mathematical development: Ideas to
explore Count and measure the frogs in the 'pond'. Create...
27 May 2004
Most early years settings have a collection of musical
instruments suitable for children to play. All too often, though, I notice
instruments tossed rather carelessly into baskets or on to...
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