23 November 2006
London's play sector has greeted with relief the news
that funding to support children's play in the capital will be reinstated.
Voluntary sector organisations that support London's most vulnerable children...
23 November 2006
(Photograph) - Twins and triplets joined the Child
Poverty Action Group's chief executive Kate Green in a demonstration at
Parliament Square last week, protesting over lower amounts of child benefit...
23 November 2006
A three-year-old boy sparked a full-scale police
helicopter search after disappearing to take his toy dog for a walk in Fences
House, Sunderland, said The Sun. Eric Murray's mother Nicola...
23 November 2006
Uncertainty hangs over the immediate future of the UK's
biggest nursery operator, Nord Anglia, as its largest shareholder, Principle
Capital Partners, decides whether to make a formal bid to take...
23 November 2006
A discussion paper on the Governance and Management of
Extended Schools and Sure Start Children's Centres has been launched by the
Department for Education and Skills. The paper covers the...
23 November 2006
SkillsActive, the sector skills council for the
playwork sector, is to launch a consultation to review the playwork national
occupational standards in January 2007. The review will aim to update...
23 November 2006
Julie Haynes, former nursery manager at Just Learning
in Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, has asked Nursery World to point out that she
resigned from her job due to ill health and not...
23 November 2006
The ongoing protest from nurseries over the rules for
nursery education grant funding means that some local authorities are delaying
issuing guidelines on the revised Code of Practice. The London...
23 November 2006
Pre-school children from low-income families are no
less likely to have access to technology in the home than children from
well-off families, according to new research. Interim findings from a...
23 November 2006
The broadcasting regulator Ofcom has been accused of
caving in to the food and advertising lobbies after refusing to enforce a ban
on ads for junk food before the 9pm...
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