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Practitioners find certain strategies prove especially effective for involving parents in their children's learning Our first major research project, which was funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust from 1997...

Relationships with parents must be built on firm foundations At Pen Green, our aim is to build close, trusting relationships with the children and families who use our nursery provision....

All about... working with parents Practitioners can help parents of under-threes gain an understanding of their children's early development

Young children often suffer earache, but the causes vary, as doctors from Great Ormond Street Hospital explain in our A to Z series on children's health The most common cause...

Mess is no problem at innovative play sessions where children can develop their physical and social skills while their parents learn how to encourage creativity. Nicole Curnow reports For some...

A famous museum dedicated to abandoned children re-opens this month. Liz Fox tells its history An 11-year-old boy is sent to sea to earn his fortune. For ten years he...

By Maurice Smith, director of early years at Ofsted The future of school inspection in England is likely to change dramatically from 2005 onwards. It may change in frequency -...

Further to the news story 'Autistic children often excluded' (20 May), this is a great issue to me, as it is a very sad state of affairs that autistic children...

I am a nursery nurse in Scotland and I think that all nursery nurses should be on the same national salary. Unison should not have allowed any local deals to...

I wish to comment on the deal given to nursery nurses in Falkirk. It is good that they have been given more responsibility by being allowing to be in charge...