* Parents in Northern Ireland are invited to nominate their childminder as the 'minder in a million' in a competition being run jointly by the Northern Ireland Childminding Association (NICMA) and...
Nursery staff reflected usefully on their own practice when Camden's Early Years Intervention Team helped them to turn around a child's challenging behaviour Not all our interventions and referrals...
Three members of staff at a Just Learning nursery in Cambridgeshire have been charged with child cruelty offences following an incident involving a 15-month-old child. The manager, deputy manager and...
Early years professionals can find advice on child protection in a new booklet from the Department of Health. What To Do If You're Worried A Child Is Being Abused gives step-by-step action points for...
The average child in Britain sees between 20,000 and 40,000 television adverts a year, according to the report The Commercialisation of Childhood by think-tank Compass. It suggests that children are...
Identifying children's relationships with the adults in their home is no longer a matter of Bob's your uncle, says Mary Evans Family life in Britain today is often much more complicated than the...
As a parent, literacy is probably the area that you are most determined for your child to succeed in. It is important, both in school and in life, and being able to read and write confidently and...
Young children broadened their cultural horizons and stretched their artistic talents in a unique project that brought satisfaction to all concerned, as Marie Charlton reports In 2003, the Arts...
Further to the death of baby Thomas Egan as a result of being fed food containing cow's milk protein at a day nursery (News, 30 January), I think there needs to be a review of the standard of...
Ormiston Herman Academy has adopted a child-centred approach in Year 1 with positive results, says teacher and early years specialist leader of education Amy Jackson