26 August 2004
Learning and Teaching Scotland has launched a new
online service to provide help and support for teachers in the new academic
year. The LT Scotland Online Service has around 30...
26 August 2004
One Plus mentoring service in Glasgow has a new set of
fully-qualified volunteer mentors. One Plus is a lone parents organisation that
offers one-to-one and group support to lone parents...
26 August 2004
Tax credits for children and childcare remain a source
of confusion for the majority of parents, according to a report last week by
the Child Poverty Action Group calling for...
26 August 2004
Childcare provision in rural areas could grow with the
decision by a farming couple to start a consultancy to help other farmers
follow them into diversifying into the nursery sector....
26 August 2004
Children who are driven to school are no less active
than pupils who walk, according to a report last week in the British Medical
Journal Online. Researchers looked at the...
26 August 2004
The information centre Fathers Direct has launched a
new resource pack for professionals who work with fathers and their children.
The Toolkit contains a Working with Fathers guide, a photopack,...
26 August 2004
Day nurseries are invited to compete in the Mark
Warner/NDNA Day Nursery Awards 2005. Rosemary Murphy, chief executive of the
National Day Nurseries Association, said, 'These awards reward truly
exceptional...
26 August 2004
Carers, parents and children are invited to fill in
time diaries to find out the ways families spend time together, to mark the
fifth national Parents' Week from 25 to...
26 August 2004
The European Union should play a greater role in
influencing the quality of childcare delivered in its member states, a
childcare expert said last week. Speaking at Children in Scotland's...
26 August 2004
The children at Mallards Wood Daycare Nursery in
Redbridge, Essex, have brought plenty of sunshine to their setting with a crop
of towering sunflowers. The tallest sunflower stands 318cm high...
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