22 February 2007
Entrepreneur and Coffee Republic chain co-founder Saher
Hashemi spent a day working at her local nursery last week as part of a
month-long Government campaign that aims to show that...
22 February 2007
(Photograph) - Chinese New Year was the theme for a
drop-in event attended by three-year-old Ellis and others at Hindley Children's
Centre in Wigan. Organised by the local Bookstart team,...
22 February 2007
Two-year-old Ana Miele managed to sneak on to a flight
to Egypt after running away from her parents at a German airport, reported The
Metro. A stewardess said, 'She took...
22 February 2007
The BBC is saving more than £4m by closing down
its workplace nurseries and plans to spend the money on programming, Nursery
World has learned. Trade unions BECTU and the...
22 February 2007
Nursery fees in Scotland are increasing at almost
double the rate of those in England, and five times the rate of those in Wales,
according to a survey published by...
22 February 2007
Voluntary organisation Craigmillar Childcare Services
has been saved from liquidation following a dramatic U-turn by Edinburgh City
Council. Over 200 nursery and out-of-school places and 28 jobs were at risk...
22 February 2007
The Metropolitan Police Service has won the Working
Families and NSPCC Family Friendly award and Working Families Employer of the
Year award for 2006. The Met offers an emergency childcare...
22 February 2007
A child's risk of developing autism could be increased
by gene mutations identified by a five-year study of nearly 1,200 families with
two or more children. The work of the...
22 February 2007
The state of children's television and other children's
media is under review by Ofcom, the regulator for the UK communications
industries. Its report due in the summer will also look...
22 February 2007
Forest schools make a positive contribution to young
children's learning and development and should be more widely available,
researchers have concluded. A study by Forest Research and the New Economics...