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Pre-School Learning Alliance warns of debt danger in childcare loan plan

By Catherine Gaunt, nurseryworld.co.uk, 10 February 12, 12:31

rethink on national finances. He added, Childcare and education must be a right for every child ... child" and when children have become the collateral of a finance agreement. If the Government is looking for a real solution to truly develop comprehensive and inclusive early years provision, it should ...

Link between sunnier climes and fewer allergies revealed

By Katy Morton, nurseryworld.co.uk, 10 February 12, 11:17

Children exposed to more sunshine are less likely to develop food allergies and eczema, finds a new

Mothers going back to work pushed into lower-paid jobs

By Katy Morton, nurseryworld.co.uk, 09 February 12, 07:00

mothers with children under five said they had freely chosen to work-part time so not to miss their child ...

High-quality childcare key to mothers' involvement in children's learning

By Katy Morton, nurseryworld.co.uk, 08 February 12, 04:08

Found Good for Children - and Their Mothers , is published in the journal Child Development. ... Researchers from the University of Texas in the United States analysed data from the Early Child Care and Youth Development longitudinal study of more than 1,300 children and their families ...

Think-tank proposes scheme to make childcare more affordable

By Catherine Gaunt, nurseryworld.co.uk, 08 February 12, 12:17

lines to the Student Loans Company; The scheme is offered on a per family basis, not per child ... their earning power and their children s development offered by formal childcare. The SMF carried out a poll with YouGov of 502 parents with a child under five, which found that more than a quarter of parents would use ...

National Childcare Contribution Scheme: a better beginning

By Ryan Shorthouse, researcher at the Social Market Foundation, nurseryworld.co.uk, 08 February 12, 10:50

employment and children s development could keep asking for more money from government. However, since ...

Teachers report rise in number of three-to five-year-olds not toilet-trained

By Katy Morton, nurseryworld.co.uk, 07 February 12, 04:40

(nine out of ten) claiming that the classroom assistant has responsibility for dealing with a child who ...

Campaigners to draw up 'alternative' EYFS

By Catherine Gaunt, nurseryworld.co.uk, 07 February 12, 01:46

University neuroscientist Baroness Greenfield, child development expert Dr Penelope Leach, and literacy ... and that the system is too inflexible to cater for young children s highly diverse developmental needs. Child ... to consider the central place of imaginative, spontaneous play, and of young children s physical development ...

Babies are people

By Dr Penelope Leach, nurseryworld.co.uk, 07 February 12, 11:12

of the Child Twenty years ago the UK, along with almost every other nation (the notable exception being the US) signed The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the second most widely ratified ... -27). The committee has worked to correct that, but even its General Comment No 7 Implementing child rights in early ...

Penelope Leach backs NSPCC babies' rights campaign

By Liz Roberts, nurseryworld.co.uk, 07 February 12, 10:57

on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), as part of its 'All Babies Count' campaign. ... The call has won backing from renowned child development expert Penelope Leach, who has written a ... because human rights matter just as much (or more if that is possible) to very young, rapidly developing ... -children in the making. She said that research showing that the left brain developed faster than the right brain ...