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Articles on all aspects of inclusion, child health, nutrition and safeguarding. Regular features include Practice in Pictures, A Doctor's Diary…, and Equality and Diversity.

 
 
A Unique Child: Inclusion - Hard times

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Families with disabled children, already bearing the brunt of local authority cuts,...

 
A Unique Child: Health - A doctor's diary ... norovirus

Subscriber content A Unique Child: Health - A doctor's diary ... norovirus

'Doctor, something is going around the nursery, and half the children are...

 
A Unique Child Health: A Doctor's Diary ... Kawasaki disease

Subscriber content A Unique Child Health: A Doctor's Diary ... Kawasaki disease

'Doctor, my son has had a fever for over five days now....

 
A Unique Child Separations: Practice in pictures - To and fro

Subscriber content A Unique Child Separations: Practice in pictures - To and fro

Practitioners should acknowledge the feelings that separation can trigger in a young...

 
A Unique Child: inclusion - Doing Christmas differently

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Families of disabled children can find the festive period less stressful if...

 
A Unique Child: Health - A doctor's diary ... measles

Subscriber content A Unique Child: Health - A doctor's diary ... measles

'Doctor, I've heard that measles is on the increase and that it...

 
A Unique Child: Inclusion - Supporting ... Lucas

Subscriber content A Unique Child: Inclusion - Supporting ... Lucas

How one nursery and key worker care for a child with cerebral...

 
A Unique Child: Health - A doctor's diary ... rubella

Subscriber content A Unique Child: Health - A doctor's diary ... rubella

'Doctor, I'm so worried. My daughter hasn't had the MMR vaccine and...

 
A Unique Child: Physical development - Practice in pictures - At a crawl

Subscriber content A Unique Child: Physical development - Practice in pictures - At a crawl

Crawling is an important physical stage in its own right which enables...

 
A Unique Child: Health - A doctor's diary ... Mumps

Subscriber content A Unique Child: Health - A doctor's diary ... Mumps

'Doctor, my son has swollen cheeks! What do you think he's got?...

 
A Unique Child: Practice in Pictures - schemas

Subscriber content A Unique Child: Practice in Pictures - schemas

Tyres are perfect open-ended resources and link well to children's schemas, as...

 
A Unique Child: Cognitive Development - First reading

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Ways that nurseries can identify and promote children's readiness for reading are...

 
A guide to the revised EYFS: Part 1 - An overview

Subscriber content A guide to the revised EYFS: Part 1 - An overview

The revised Early Years Foundation Stage will form part of sweeping changes...

 

Subscriber content A Unique Child: Health - A doctor's diary ... warts

'Doctor! I think my child has a wart? Can you freeze it...

 
A Unique Child: home culture - Worlds apart?

Subscriber content A Unique Child: home culture - Worlds apart?

To understand a child's home culture, early years educators need to look...

 
A Unique Child: Eye Cancer - A trick of the light?

Subscriber content A Unique Child: Eye Cancer - A trick of the light?

Eye cancer in young children is rare, but early diagnosis of retinoblastoma...

 
A unique child: Health - A doctor's diary ... earache

Subscriber content A unique child: Health - A doctor's diary ... earache

'Doctor, I'm sorry to bother you, but my daughter has got another...

 
A Unique Child: Selective Mutism - Silent types

Subscriber content A Unique Child: Selective Mutism - Silent types

How do you distinguish between children who are shy or 'just very...

 
A Unique Child: Health - A doctor's diary ... Group B strep

A Unique Child: Health - A doctor's diary ... Group B strep

'Doctor, my friend's son has been admitted to hospital with a severe...

 
A Unique Child: Cognitive development - Left-handed and right-handed

Subscriber content A Unique Child: Cognitive development - Left-handed and right-handed

Which hand we write with is not determined at birth, but our...

 
 
 
 

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EYFS review - all the details

EYFS review - all the details

Get all the latest plus background on the Government's reform of the Early Years Foundation Stage

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