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'Government must kick start an early years revolution', urge MPs

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

| Nursery World

The Health and Social Care Committee wants the Government to produce a long-term strategy for the first 1,000 days of life to improve support and services for children and families.

Enabling Environments: All about ... Creating a wildlife area

Features

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

| Nursery World

The best way to get children to think about our disappearing wildlife is to have them take an active part in its resurrection - and it's really simple to do, says Mary Whiting.

Hi-tech tracker boosts young children's active play

News

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

| Nursery World

Rosendale Primary School in Lambeth has taken part in a project encouraging children to move more and be more active by embracing technology.

Parents putting off toilet training with some relying on nurseries

News

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

| Nursery World

More children are being toilet trained later, according to a new survey of early years staff.

Screen time versus real time

Opinion

Thursday, February 7, 2019

| Nursery World

The latest advice from chief medical officers about screen time for children is welcome, says Sally Goddard Blythe.

Children may grow out of autism, suggests new research

News

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Some children who are diagnosed with autism when they are young lose the symptoms and the diagnosis as they grow older, according to a new study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health in America.

Positive relationships - Childhood fears - I'm scared

Features

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

| Nursery World

Why children feel fear, and how they experience it at different ages, is explored by Maria Robinson.

Early years resources focus on healthy eating for toddlers

News

Friday, March 15, 2013

| Nursery World

The Infant and Toddler forum is going back to basics with healthy eating resources in response to the rise in childhood obesity.

Music therapy can comfort premature babies

News

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

| Nursery World

Playing live music to a premature baby can slow their heartbeat and help the child breathe more easily, a study has found.

Research seeks to eradicate childhood allergies

News

Friday, October 28, 2011

| Nursery World

Doctors are to expose babies to dust mites in a 'radical study' to halt the rising allergy epidemic in Britain.

Training Today: Professional Development - Stress busting

Features

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

| Nursery World

Two mental-health-themed qualifications have recently been launched by CACHE. How useful will they be for practitioners who are now looking to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, asks Gabriella Jozwiak

A Unique Child: Nutrition - Nursery food report exposes lack of standards

Features

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

| Nursery World

Children in nurseries are being served less healthy food than those in schools, as an extensive new report shows. Simon Vevers reports.

Positive Relationships: Parenting Programmes - Something to prove

Features

Monday, May 30, 2016

| Nursery World

High-quality parenting programmes can support vulnerable people and their ability to parent. Charlotte Goddard profiles one such programme and the challenges facing this type of intervention

Health & Nutrition: Brain development - Down to size

Features

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

| Nursery World

Research has shown a link between extreme deprivation in early childhood and smaller brain size. Meredith Jones Russell reports

Paediatricians call on PM for urgent plan for all children to return to school

News

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

| Nursery World

More than 1,500 paediatricians have signed a letter to the prime minister calling for the Government to urgently publish a clear plan for getting all children back to school.

Free school meals feed minds as well as bodies

News

Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

A two-year pilot that made free school meals available for all primary pupils significantly improved children's attainment, with children making between four and eight weeks more progress than is generally the case.

News Analysis: In numbers

News

Friday, February 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Activity and obesity

Physical activity: some lessons from Finland

Opinion

Monday, April 3, 2017

| Nursery World

It may sound strange, but we know very little about children’s physical activity (PA) in daycare and nurseries. How physically active are children really? What instigates PA?

Local authorities to pilot payment-by-results in children's centres

News

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

| Nursery World

Children's centres will be paid according to the take-up of free nursery education among disadvantaged two and three-year-olds, in plans unveiled by children's minister Sarah Teather.