<P> The successful integration of a child with Down's syndrome led to a centre reviewing its policies and practice. Moira Keating and Elizabeth Knight explain how it was done </P>
Children with disabilities and special needs are being given the chance to take the risks all children need by some far-sighted projects. Karen Faux reports Anyone entertaining the idea that children...
The importance of a setting's environment to children's sense of security and freedom is a recurring theme, explains Wendy Scott Young children in daycare flourish where the adults working with them...
Valuable opportunities exist for training and voluntary work to help support children who have been bereaved, says Barbara Millar Anyone who works with children may have to face the situation where a...
A national debate on the future of school education in Scotland will be held in March this year. Minister for education and young people Cathy Jamieson said she wanted to hear views from 'pupils,...
(Photograph) - A display in the House of Commons has been urging MPs to take part in events in their constituencies for the first National Childcare Month. A further reminder was given by (from left)...
(Photograph) - The nursery group Child and Co knew it was backing a winner when it treated members of its Five Year Club - staff who have all worked for the company for at least five years - to a day...
By William Towgood, pre-school supervisor, Little Acorns Day Nursery, Eastleigh, Hampshire I love my job. I have a unique relationship with everyone involved in my setting because I am different. I'm...
There is a growing number of 'talking books' on CD-Roms or the internet that can be used with young children. These tend to have spoken text, pictures with hotspots to click and sometimes animations....
Look at how discrimination begins among children, parents and early years practitioners and at the way settings accommodate children to see what could be changed. Legislation and the new national...
