25 January 2007
Talk to Your Baby, the National Literacy Trust's
campaign to promote communication with babies and toddlers, is urging parents
and childcarers to be more sociable when pushing buggies with a...
25 January 2007
The Children's Workforce Development Council is holding
a free event for all practitioners at the East Midlands Learning Partnership in
Derby on 1 February to share best practice and ideas...
25 January 2007
Hundreds of children under six are being sought by the
University of Plymouth for a study into the development of language and
particular accents. Children would be required for a...
25 January 2007
The mobile creche company Nipperbout is celebrating
gaining its third outstanding rating from Ofsted, after campaigning for more
flexibility in inspection arrangements for mobile childcare facilities. Owners
Janthea and Steve...
25 January 2007
British cities are 'scarred' by child poverty, said the
Joseph Rowntree Foundation following its research showing that poverty affects
around half the children in some of Britain's biggest cities. The...
25 January 2007
More than 200 nursery and out-of- school places in
Edinburgh were facing the axe last week after the city council refused to
release grants to Craigmillar Childcare Services (CCS) because...
25 January 2007
The DfES is seeking views on its plans to exempt some
childcare providers from either the Early Years Register, for children from
nought to five, or the Ofsted Childcare Register,...
25 January 2007
(Photograph) - The Gruffalo's cave was the setting for
a party to celebrate the opening of Redruth Children's Centre in Cornwall on
Saturday. Children made masks in the image of...
25 January 2007
Children in Glasgow are to benefit from a £15.5m
plan to introduce networked PCs and laptops in the city's council-run nurseries
and primary schools. From April, 125 nurseries will have...
25 January 2007
Stimulating play could be as important as nutrition or
education in breaking cycles of poverty and deprivation, says Mary Evans The
provision of simple toys and structured play could enable...
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