22 July 2004
This year's Childcare Stars Awards, run by 4Children
with Nursery World and Prima magazines and sponsored by Sure Start, acknowledge
some of the childcare sector's unsung heroes and their good...
22 July 2004
Name: Maria Roche Age: 25 Job title: Doula Employer:
Self-employed Salary: As a postnatal doula, £12 per hour Duties
22 July 2004
By the executive committee of the National Campaign for
Real Nursery Education We are disappointed by the Government's plans for early
years as expressed in the Department for Education and...
22 July 2004
I applaud and encourage any early years setting which
fosters individual children's independence and autonomy ('All by myself', 17
June). Maria Montessori first saw the need to observe children and...
22 July 2004
I have worked as a nursery nurse in a Middlesbrough
local authority school nursery for 20 years. In our authority all council
employees are going through a local government single...
22 July 2004
I think Annabel Tall (Letters, 1 July) is not looking
far enough. She believes the needs of children with medical/physical special
needs such as Down's syndrome or cerebral palsy are...
22 July 2004
25 July Too Scared for School ITV, 10.45 to
11.45pm
22 July 2004
24 July Baby care skills course
22 July 2004
Increased spending on childcare is an encouraging sign that the Government is tackling child poverty but cuts in civil service jobs could undermine the strategy, the Child Poverty Action Group...
22 July 2004
Bogus agencies are increasingly targeting nurseries and playgroups, using threatening language to trick them into handing over up to £135 to register under the Data Protection Act.