17 October 2007
The Welsh Foundation Phase (FP) was unveiled by Minister for Education Jane Hutt last week to a mixed reception, with some practitioners welcoming its child-centred, play-based approach, while one leading...
17 October 2007
Children from deprived areas continue to lag significantly behind their peers in development levels at age five.
17 October 2007
The Government has been forced to go back on its target for halting child obesity by 2010 as new figures reveal that a quarter of children are obese when they...
17 October 2007
Most providers of free nursery education receive enough money to cover their costs, but extending the flexible entitlement to 15 hours may worsen the plight of those already facing a...
17 October 2007
Should young children and pregnant women eat peanuts, or avoid them? Official advice on practice could soon be reversed, as Ruth Thomson reports.
17 October 2007
ABC charts are an excellent means of tracking and evaluating children's behaviour, explain Rachel Lo and Ann Henderson in their new book, The Social Child. All children attending early years...
