22 July 2004
What makes a handy portable snack that avoids the junk?
Fiona Hamilton-Fairley packs a picnic One thing children love is when you
announce that a day out is imminent and...
22 July 2004
Children in Scotland as young as five are missing school to care for relatives with disabilities or problems ranging from mental illness to alcoholism and drug abuse.
22 July 2004
Labour's plans for a further massive expansion of early years provision seem to be putting quantity before quality - again. Simon Vevers hears what leading figures in the sector think...
22 July 2004
A child's challenging behaviour may require early years practitioners to implement a crisis management strategy, say members of the Camden Early Years Intervention Team
22 July 2004
In the second of four articles about meningitis, Jane Edmonds examines how the sudden death of one boy brought together the parents and staff from his nursery
22 July 2004
Is Britain's move towards more integrated services missing something? Peter Moss, Pat Petrie and Bronwen Cohen look at other possible ways to go
15 July 2004
(Photograph) - Tactile, colourful mosaics designed by
children at Mary Paterson Nursery School in London now adorn the outside of
their building. Artists Miriam Gold and Imogen Ward from the...
15 July 2004
Child protection campaigners have condemned as
unworkable last week's 'half-hearted law reform' which maintains parents' right
to lightly smack their children. The House of Lords voted against a proposal to...
15 July 2004
A 9 per cent rise in the cost of cost of holiday
childcare is hitting families as schools break up for the summer holidays,
according to a new survey by...
15 July 2004
A music manifesto aiming to reverse two decades of
decline in music education was launched last week by the Government and a
coalition of 70 organisations. It promises music tuition...