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* Contact a Family, the charity for families with disabled children, has launched a new service for children's centres, designed to help them enhance the services and information they provide....

2 November Learning to play, playing to learn

If you work with Foundation Stage children, the official directives about using synthetic phonics as the first and foremost approach to teaching young children to read are probably causing you...

The winning consortium of children's services organisations that will be working with local authorities to plan and develop children's centres will be named this week, Nursery World has learned. In...

Nursery owner Olive Rack can now go back to working directly with the children at her Northamptonshire nursery, with Ofsted's lifting of a voluntary ban following her acquittal of assault...

There should be more flexibility about the way the nursery education grant is delivered, so that nurseries are not forced to close or only take parents who can afford not...

(Photograph) - Peter Beasley gives his two-year-old granddaughter Lucy some steering tips during Grandparents' Day at Seabrook Day Nursery in Luton. The nursery invited the children's grandparents to visit for...

A three-year-old boy managed to buy a car on eBay while his mother's back was turned, reported the Daily Mail. Jack Neal of Lincolnshire tapped a £8,999 bid for the...

Five-year-olds who attend Montessori schools are better at playing co-operatively with other children and have better maths and English skills than their peers in conventional settings, according to a US...

Poor communication skills mean that half of all five-year-olds are starting school without the skills to make friends and learn, severely affecting their future life chances, says speech and language...