14 October 2004
Entrepreneurs in the early years are being sought by
Ricochet South, makers of the Channel 4 television series 'Supernanny'. The
company is now producing a second series of 'Risking it...
14 October 2004
The lucky winner of £400of nursery equipment is
Judy Levinson, senior nursery officer at Clayhall Nursery in Ilford. The 11
products are all winners in the recent Nursery Equipment awards...
14 October 2004
(Photograph) - Children can help Polly put the kettle
on, wash clothes and do the ironing in an authentically reconstructed Victorian
kitchen at the Ragged School Museum in east London....
14 October 2004
Children's rights campaigners are staging a mass lobby
of Parliament on 26 October to press for an amendment to the Children Bill to
give children the same legal protection from...
14 October 2004
(Photograph) - Babies began their crawl through the
world of books at Broughty Ferry library in Dundee last month when the city
council launched its latest early reading campaign. Under...
14 October 2004
Members of the Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA)
have voted in favour of changes to training requirements for childminders. A
resolution was passed at the SCMA conference in Perth last week...
14 October 2004
One of the most disadvantaged London boroughs is to
carry out an evaluation of its family support services in readiness for the
development of up to 15 children's centres. The...
14 October 2004
It's that time of the year when children look forward
to a game of conkers at playtime. But the 'nanny state' appears to have gone
bonkers over conkers. The Daily...
14 October 2004
Sixteen high street retailers have backed a Friends of
the Earth campaign to phase out risky chemicals from the products they sell.
According to the environmental organisation, a cocktail of...
14 October 2004
Renewed calls for nanny registration arose last week
after the consumer protection magazine Which? published a report of an
undercover investigation that found many nanny agencies were failing to carry...