6 January 2005
Children have used their artwork to suggest ways to
improve school life for their peers who have additional support needs. More
than 200 children aged between six and 18 entered...
6 January 2005
Policymakers are being urged to reconsider the current
expansion of formal childcare provision and focus on the benefits of informal
care provided by friends and family. The recommendation is made...
6 January 2005
A wider range of family learning programmes is needed
to tackle problems of under-achievement, truancy and anti-social behaviour in
children and to improve the lives of adults, according to a...
6 January 2005
(Photograph) - Five-year-old Dominic Head, with foster
father Ron Head, receives his 2004 Woman's Own Children of Courage Award in a
ceremony at Westminster Abbey on 15 December. Dominic was...
6 January 2005
A new network dedicated to ensuring day nurseries in
Cardiff and the surrounding areas are well supported has been launched by the
National Day Nurseries Association. The Cardiff Network, open...
6 January 2005
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell ponders what the
appointment of a new education secretary really represents. Everybody agrees
that the appointment of Ruth Kelly, the brainbox, to head up the...
6 January 2005
* The National Childminding Association, with support
from the Sure Start Unit, has launched a new training resource for childminders
working with disabled children. Copies of the CD-Rom, Inclusive Childminding...
6 January 2005
5 February Songs and stories with children under
three
6 January 2005
They've heard the Government's strategy - now how are
they going to implement it? Simon Vevers hears what early years professionals
are thinking The ten-year childcare strategy may have thudded...
6 January 2005
* As the childminding network co-ordinator, Micky
Waters is at the heart of the process of integrating children's and families'
services at the St Albans children's centre in Hertfordshire. Under...