Even the youngest children role play, but the activity takes on whole new meanings and imaginative potential with Reception pupils, explains Charlotte Goddard
The UK is failing its most vulnerable children and any improvements in tackling child poverty are in danger of being eroded by Government welfare policies, doctors' leaders have warned.
One setting in Derby visited a dairy farm so that its city-dwelling children could get up close to some of the animals living there, discovers Annette Rawstrone
* The Child Poverty Action Group has published the 2006-07 edition of its Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook. It will be available as an online service for the first time later this year and is...
British cities are 'scarred' by child poverty, said the Joseph Rowntree Foundation following its research showing that poverty affects around half the children in some of Britain's biggest cities. The...
The Child Poverty Action Group has called for the Government to provide asylum- seeker mothers with free milk tokens. The charity believes babies are being put at risk of HIV infection because the...
As children and families don bright socks to raise awareness of World Down Syndrome Day, the Government is introducing legislation to improve the lives of people with the condition. Nicole Weinstein...
Almost six in ten child deaths from epilepsy in the UK were 'potentially or probably avoidable', an audit by Epilepsy Bereaved and funded by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has...
The V&A Museum of Childhood has been renamed the Young V&A, as work begins on its £13m refurbishment, with its aim to become ‘the UK’s premier national museum entirely dedicated to children’.
