8 March 2007
Child Base Nurseries has appeared in the Sunday Times
Best Companies Award list for the second year in a row, jumping up 41 places to
be rated the 31st best...
8 March 2007
Children's minister Beverley Hughes said on Monday that
Youth Opportunity Cards, which would have rewarded well-behaved teenagers with
£25 a week credits to use on sport and leisure activities, have...
8 March 2007
Childcare professionals arebeing invited by the charity
Barnado's to its inaugural annual conference, called Childhood Matters, on
20-21 March, where speakers will include children's commissioner Al-Aynsley
Green and journalist Polly...
8 March 2007
One in four children in Scotland - 240,000 in total -
lives in poverty, according to a five-year study. In 1979 only one child in
eight lived below the poverty...
8 March 2007
Fears that new qualification requirements might lead to
an exodus of experienced, unqualified staff out of Scotland's childcare sector
appear to be receding as the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC)...
8 March 2007
(Photograph) - Former England rugby player Victor Ubogu
enjoyed finger painting with children at Babyface Nursery in Bath when he
swapped his day job running a hospitality business for a...
8 March 2007
The National Children's Bureau (NCB) and the DfES have
launched a project to help local authorities and childcare organisations
develop their quality improvement processes through a national network.
Children's minister...
8 March 2007
The home learning environment (HLE) in the early years
has a greater influence on a child's development than parents' qualifications,
income or ethnicity, and more needs to be done to...
8 March 2007
(Photograph) - Four-year-olds Rachael Hall and Jamie
Hill practise their brushing technique on a set of model teeth at the St John's
Nursery School in Alloa, Clackmannanshire. Deputy health minister...
8 March 2007
Researchers have come up with new ways to spot
potential problems with young children's language development. Psychologist Dr
Penny Roy and co-researcher linguist Professor Shula Chiat from City
University, London,...