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While the rise in the number of adults being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes hit the headlines again recently, what is less reported is the sharp rise in recent years of the number of under-fives...
Part one of our new 12-part collectible series on child development looks at meeting the emotional and learning needs of the unique child. By Julia Manning-Morton
Parents would feel more comfortable leaving their children in childcare if the Every Child Matters framework contained more family-friendly policies, the author of a report by a leading think-tank has...
Best practice in the Early Years Foundation Stage will depend on understanding how all the aspects of child's development link together. Maria Robinson sets out a way to approach them.
Childcare professionals are being invited by a television production company to take part in a documentary series to help hassled parents bring some order to their chaotic family life. Ricochet South...
Creating enabling environments to promote the physical development of babies and young children is the main focus in the first of a three-part series by Clare Crowther. Photographs by Paul Box at...
Family fortunes: the new politics of childhood Edited by Patrick Diamond, Sunder Katwala and Meg Munn
The revised Early Years Foundation Stage and its Characteristics of Effective Learning provide an opportunity to change practice in Key Stage 1 - and the new Ofsted inspection framework allows...
What is empathy, how does it develop in the early years, and what can practitioners and parents do to support it? Ruth Thomson explains
The research and thinking about infant development available to early years practitioners is highlighted by Jools Page and Cathy Nutbrown from the University of Sheffield's School of Education.