21 October 2004
Mainstream settings can find guidance on including
disabled children in a new pack launched last week by disabled children's
charity KIDS. The 'All of Us' pack contains two documents to...
21 October 2004
Two groundbreaking medical discoveries will help young
children across the world. The Times reported the successful trial of a malaria
vaccine in Mozambique that could control the disease, which kills...
21 October 2004
Children are being starved of affection at weekends as
more parents are forced to work unsociable hours to fit in with today's '24/7'
culture, according to a study published last...
21 October 2004
Grants totalling £16m are set to be distributed
among 137 voluntary parenting support services across England. Grants from the
Department for Education and Skills' new Parenting Fund range from Pounds...
21 October 2004
Childcare co-operatives could become a UK-wide movement
with the launch of a national project set for January. Co-operatives UK has
received almost £200,000 funding from Co-operative Action to promote the...
21 October 2004
By Ann Robinson of the Early Childhood Unit, National
Children's Bureau Stability in centre daycare: Relations with children's
well-being and problem behavior in daycare
21 October 2004
How do they manage? A review of the research on
leadership in early childhood. Findings from a University of Warwick review of
literature on leadership in early childhood. Identifies a...
21 October 2004
Government childcare expansion is based on the
assumption that parents (both employed) base their choice of services on
cost-benefit analysis. This study of six distinct groups of mothers reveals
that...
21 October 2004
Reports evidence from a study in which children's
attention to shape in a task of artificial noun learning was correlated with a
rate shift in noun acquisitions. Eight children (median...
21 October 2004
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell says that
parenting classes mean different things to different people - especially parents
When children's minister Margaret Hodge announced a year ago that the
Government...