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Children's 'red books' start to go online from April

Monday, February 13, 2017

| Nursery World

The ‘red book’, the paper-based personal child health record for under-fives, will be available online for London parents from April ahead of a national rollout.

Health campaign says young children should have three hours activity a day

News

Friday, July 29, 2016

| Nursery World

‘Every movement counts’ is the motto of a new Department of Health campaign to encourage children aged under five to be physically active for at least three hours a day.

Gender gap crisis 'fails generation of boys', charity claims

News

Monday, July 18, 2016

| Nursery World

A ‘gender gap crisis’ is seriously damaging prospects for boys in this country, according to a children’s charity.

Experts highlight parenting class mistakes

News

Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

A government-funded study published days after the Prime Minister pledged to roll out parenting classes to all, has reported the scheme will fail without proper financial backing.

Youngest children not active enough

News

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

| Nursery World

Just nine per cent of children aged between two and four are doing the right amount of physical activity, experts have claimed.

Turning on the light

Opinion

Monday, June 1, 2015

| Nursery World

Camila Batmanghelidjh calls for a revolution in caring for vulnerable children.

'This little piggy...'

Opinion

Monday, April 20, 2015

| Nursery World

With the election just weeks away, Professor Cathy Nutbrown urges politicians to see childcare as an essential service for the common good.

Projects for disadvantage get share of £1m fund

News

Monday, April 6, 2015

| Nursery World

Six projects designed to raise the attainment of disadvantaged children from the age of two have been granted a share of £1m in funding.

Lords call for redistribution of early years funding

News

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

| Nursery World

A cross-party group of peers is calling for fairer funding for PVI settings and for spending to be targeted at disadvantaged children who benefit the most.

Cost of tackling social problems too late costs £17bn a year

News

Friday, February 13, 2015

| Nursery World

A move from late to early intervention would save the Government billions of pounds a year, suggests new research.

Interview: Dr Anna Goodman, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Other

Monday, November 3, 2014

| Nursery World

Dr Anna Goodman is the lead author of a study into the effect of daylight saving time on children's physical activity

A mixed start for the new childcare minister

Opinion

Friday, September 19, 2014

| Nursery World

Dr Richard House, a co-founder of Early Childhood Action, shares his first impressions

Councils pilot £2m fund for adopted children

News

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

Ten local authorities have been chosen to pilot the Government's new Adoption Support Fund.

Truss to revisit role of children's centres

News

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

| Nursery World

The education and childcare minister has agreed to look again at the core purpose of Sure Start children’s centres.

Charity calls for action to reduce attainment gap between Scotland's richest and poorest children

News

Thursday, May 8, 2014

| Nursery World

A new report calls for more focused interventions to close the attainment gap between children from high and low-income households.

Development of 5,000 two-year-olds tracked as part of Government-funded study

News

Friday, October 18, 2013

| Nursery World

Research interviews began last week with families taking part in one of the largest ever Government-funded studies into early years education.

MPs call for joint children's centre and health budgets to protect services

News

Monday, July 15, 2013

| Nursery World

Children's centre budgets should be pooled with those for midwives and health visitors, a cross-party committee of MPs has argued.

Interview: Professor Leon Feinstein

Other

Friday, April 19, 2013

| Nursery World

The Early Intervention Foundation's interim head of evidence, and visiting professor at the London School of Economics Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion.

Government funds 5m early education study

News

Thursday, April 18, 2013

| Nursery World

The first major early years research to begin since 1997 will look at the impact of free early education from the age of two on the development of thousands of children.