25 October 2005
Participation and Belonging: Ensuring Equality for Every Child An opportunity for those working in the early years sector to reflect upon current practices which aim to ensure that every child...
25 October 2005
1 November Participation and Belonging: Ensuring Equality for Every Child An opportunity for those working in the early years sector to reflect upon current practices which aim to ensure that...
27 October 2005
Nursery World is delighted that the Department for
Education and Skills' Foundation Stage team, led by Lesley Staggs, is writing
another year-long series of articles for the magazine. It is...
27 October 2005
Local authority allocations from the £125m-a-year
Transformation Fund are expected to be made early next month, along with DfES
guidance on using the fund to promote professional status and qualifications...
27 October 2005
Falling occupancy levels are threatening some private
providers with extinction, prompting calls from the heads of two major nursery
chains for the Government to ensure that spare capacity is used...
27 October 2005
Fathers could be entitled to up to three months' paid
and three months' unpaid paternity leave under new proposals contained in the
Work and Families Bill published last week.
27 October 2005
Early years workers from Sheffield Children's Centre
are at the forefront of relief efforts in Pakistan, bringing aid to areas
devastated by the South Asia earthquake. Nine workers from the...
27 October 2005
The Sun appealed to parents to send in pictures of
their children sitting on the 'naughty step', made famous by supernanny Jo
Frost. The paper ran a two-page feature on...
27 October 2005
Northern Ireland's Children's Commissioner has called
for the urgent development of a comprehensive play strategy in the province.
Calling for immediate action on a Government pledge to develop a strategy,...
27 October 2005
A lack of social housing suitable for families means
hundreds of thousands of children are living in overcrowded homes, according to
a new report from the housing charity Shelter. The...