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Playworkers from Scotland Yard Adventure Centre in Edinburgh (The Yard) are holding workshops across Scotland on supporting play opportunities for children with additional needs. The workshops, funded by the Scottish...

Teachers in Scotland can access information and resources about health and well-being at school through a website set up by the Scottish Executive's Scottish Health Promoting Schools Unit. The Unit's...

Kidcare, a Glasgow-based charitable trust, has secured the contract to run a creche at the home of the Scottish Parliament. The creche at Holyrood House, which has been custom-built as...

Disquiet among teachers and early years practitioners over the transition between the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 has been noted in two reports for the Government. The Foundation Stage...

(Photograph) - The Red Admiral Atalanta butterfly is one of the many creatures that children in early years settings and schools are being encouraged to look for during in the...

The Welsh Assembly plans to train at least 150 Welsh-language early years practitioners by 2006. Jane Davidson, minister for education and lifelong learning, has invited Mudiad Ysgolian Meithrin, which promotes...

Children living in households where there is domestic violence or whose parents have severe mental and physical health problems rarely seek professional help, and when they do their experiences of...

Childcare students can gain valuable experience this summer working with children who have special needs. SNAP Childcare is offering current and recently qualified students a placement as a mother's help...

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...

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...