The government is 14 years behind its target to halve child poverty by 2010 and needs to invest at further 4bn, according to Save the Children. Alistair Darling, the chancellor, was criticised by...
UK practitioners can learn much from the nurseries of San Miniato, a close neighbour and rival in excellence to Reggio Emilia, say Keir Bloomer and Bronwen Cohen, authors of a new book on the area.
Noticing what a baby is attending to, and then talking to them about it, boosts language development. By Dr Danielle Matthews, Dr Michelle McGillion and Professor Julian Pine
Children at Busy Bees day nursery, Farnborough, Hampshire, swapped hats with police officers as part of a health and safety session for Child Safety Week (18-24 June). Police and fire services came to...
How do other Nursery World readers deal with parents who insist on bringing their obviously ill child into nursery? I cannot understand how they can stand at the nursery door and say that their child...
One in four children in Scotland - 240,000 in total - lives in poverty, according to a five-year study. In 1979 only one child in eight lived below the poverty line. Poverty in Scotland 2007 by the...
In the first our new good practice series by the DfES team of Foundation Stage regional directors, Lesley Staggs looks at how they define the key elements of effective practice The first task my team...
Apilot counselling service for children in two Edinburgh primary schools has proved so successful it is to be expanded across eight schools in the city and may even be introduced into nursery classes...
Parents, childcare workers and health visitors are being targeted by three new distance learning courses being set up in Leicester at De Montfort University's Unit for Parenting Studies. The...
